Handwritten newspaper for World Water Day

March 22, 2022 is the 30th "World Water Day", and March 22-28 is the 35th "China Water Week". The United Nations has determined that the theme of "World Water Day" in 2022 is "Groundwater-Making the Invisible Visible". The theme of my country's "World Water Day" and "China Water Week" events in 2022 is "Promoting comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation and reviving the ecological environment of rivers and lakes."

The origin of World Water Day: Water is an important natural resource and environmental element that all life depends on for survival and is indispensable and irreplaceable for social and economic development. However, the rapid development of population growth, industrial and agricultural production activities and urbanization in modern society have had a huge impact on limited water resources and water environment. Globally, water pollution, rapid increase in water demand, and irrational utilization caused by competitive development among departments have further caused water shortages and worsened the water environment, seriously affecting social and economic development and threatening humankind. well-being.

The background of World Water Day

The establishment of "World Water Day" has a background: all social and economic activities are greatly dependent on the supply and quality of fresh water. With population growth and economic development, many countries will fall into the dilemma of water shortage and economic development will be restricted; promoting water protection and sustainable management requires public awareness at the local level, national level, interregion, and international level.

The slogan of "World Water Day" in 2022 is

1. Implement the water control idea of ??"water saving priority, spatial balance, systematic governance, and efforts from both hands"

2. Promote comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation and revive the ecological environment of rivers and lakes

3. Implement groundwater management regulations and strengthen groundwater overexploitation management

4. Implement the total amount of groundwater withdrawal and water level Dual control management

5. Revitalize the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, maintain the healthy life of rivers and lakes

6. Strengthen the river and lake chief system, and build happy rivers and lakes

7 .Carry out the Mother River Recovery Action to let rivers flow and restore lakes

8. Make good use of water resources and manage them strictly

9. In-depth implementation National water-saving action

10. Establish and improve water-saving system policies and improve the ability to intensively conserve and utilize water resources

11. Establish a rigid water resource restriction system and strengthen dual control of total water consumption and intensity

12. Fight the battle of deep water conservation and water control in the Yellow River Basin

13. Actively practice citizens’ behavioral norms for water conservation

14. In-depth implementation of the "China Yangtze River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China"

15. Thoroughly implement the Soil and Water Conservation Law and promote comprehensive prevention and control of water and soil loss

16. Implement major national water network projects and improve water resource optimization Configuration capabilities

17. Accelerate the construction of digital twin watersheds and digital twin projects, and strengthen the function of forecasting, early warning, and rehearsal plans

18. Strengthen unified planning, unified governance, unified dispatch, and unified management of watersheds< /p>

19. Improve the river basin flood control engineering system and enhance flood and drought disaster prevention capabilities

20. Improve the level of rural water supply security and ensure the safety of rural water supply