tirto.id - Tanggal 22 Maret memperingati Hari Air Sedunia atau World Water Day setiap tahunnya.
Peringatan Hari Air Sedunia ini memberikan perhatian pada pentingnya keberadaan ini. Selain itu, semua pihak turut diingatkan mengenai kesadaran tentang krisis air yang dihadapi berbagai belahan dunia.
Sejarah Hari Air Sedunia tidak bisa dilepaskan dari penyelenggaraan Konferensi Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa tentang Lingkungan dan Pembangunan di Rio de Janeiro pada 1992. Dalam pelaksanaannya muncul ide untuk menetapkan sebuah hari internasional terkait air.
Masih di tahun yang sama, ide itu pun dibahas dalam Majelis Umum PBB. Setelah itu, PBB mengadopsi resolusi yang menyatakan bahwa 22 Maret setiap tahunnya menjadi peringatan Hari Air Sedunia. Peringatan pertama dilangsungkan pada 22 Maret 1993.
Dalam perjalanannya, dukungan kepedulian terhadap air ternyata mulai tampak dengan diadakannya perayaan dan cara lain. Contohnya, pada tahun 2013 ditetapkan sebagai Tahun Kerja Sama Internasional di Bidang Air 2013 atau International Year of Cooperation in the Water Sphere 2013.
Tak hanya itu, aksi yang berjalan dari tahun 2018 lalu masih berlangsung sampai saat ini. Aksi tersebut bertajuk International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028.
Tindakan ini sebagai upaya penegasan kembali tentang tindakan terhadap air dan sanitasi yang bisa menjadi kunci pengentasan kemiskinan, pertumbuhan ekonomi, dan kelestarian lingkungan.
Tema Hari Air Sedunia 2023
Tema Hari Air Sedunia 2023 adalah "Accelerating Change". Menurut PBB dalam situs UN Water, kampanye tahun memberikan fokus pada percepatan perubahan dalam mengatasi krisis air dan sanitasi.
Kampanye global Be the Change mendorong orang untuk mengambil tindakan dalam kehidupan mereka sendiri dalam rangka mengubah cara memperlakukan air. Di dalamnya meliputi cara menggunakan, mengonsumsi, hingga mengelola air.
38 Ucapan Hari Air Sedunia & Quotes Happy World Water Day
Berikut berbagai ucapan atau quote mengenai Hari Air Sedunia. Kalimat-kalimat ini bisa digunakan pula untuk berbagi inspirasi tentang pentingnya air:
- “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loren Eiseley
- “The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.” – Lucretius
- “Even though the largest rocks may stand in its way, water will always find a way to get through it.” – Roger Lee
- “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu
- “If you want to heal, find water and stars..” – Unknown
- “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller
- “The mind is like water. When its turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes
- “Always be like water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind, which touches its surface.” – Santosh Kalwar
- "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
- “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “The mind is just like water. When agitated; it is difficult to see what lies beneath…When settled, the answers surface.” – Unknown
- “The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the sea.” Isak Dinesen
- "I am water. Soft enough to offer life. Tough enough to drown it away.” – Rupi Kaur
- “The sea cures all ailments of man.” – Plato
- “Water is sufficient…the spirit moves over water.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Shallow waters are noisy, deep waters are silent.” – Unknown
- “Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.” – Kim Young-ha
- “Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.” – Cyril Connolly
- “Be formless, shapeless like water. If you put water into a cup, it comes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee
- “The sea does not like to be restrained.” – Rick Riordan
- “Be fluid. Be like water. Flow around the obstacles.” – Master Choa Kok Sui
- “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
- “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of it’s container.” – Wallace Stevens
- “You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.” – Alysha Speer
- “An over-indulgence of anything even something as pure as water can intoxicate.” – Criss Jami
- “I’m always happy when I’m surround by water, I think I’m a mermaid or I was a mermaid.” – Beyoncé Knowles
- “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Life is like water, if you block one side, it takes another turn to continue its journey.” – Unknown
- “Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine
- “Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes. Yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.” – Victoria Erickson
- “I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people’s lives.” – John A Passaro
- “Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.” – Sun Tzu
- “We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.” – Deborah Smith
- “Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn’t get to have.” – Ann Brashares
- “Run wild and free like a waterfall.” – Anamika Mishra
- “Water talks unceasingly, but never repeats itself.” – Octavio Paz
Editor: Yulaika Ramadhani
