30 March 2008. Kyiv , Ukraine - Around 50 students of Kyiv Art School #1 participated in competition of paintings showing their perception of water in our day-to-day life. Initiated by the UN office in Ukraine, this competition was devoted to the World Water Day observed annually on 22 March worldwide.
By resolution 47/193 of 22 December 1992, the General Assembly declared 22 March of each year World Day for Water starting in 1993. It is a unique occasion to remind everybody that concrete efforts to provide clean drinking water and increase awareness world-wide of the problems and of the solutions, can help make the difference.
In resolution 58/217 of 23 December 2003, the General Assembly proclaimed the period from 2005 to 2015 the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life".
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More photos of participants paintings can be found here .
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