This year's World Day for Water is the second in the Water for Life Decade launched last year. By 2015, the community of nations has pledged to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Ending unsustainable exploitation of water resources is another of the Millennium Development Goals.
Read more about the World Day for Water:
http://www.unesco.org/water/wwd2006/index.shtml
Blessing of the waters by Apache elder Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf, at the March 22, 2005 launch of the Water for Life Decade at UN headquarters in New York.