'Coping with Water Scarcity' is the theme for World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on 22 March. This year's theme highlights the increasing significance of water scarcity worldwide and the need for increased integration and cooperation to ensure sustainable, efficient and equitable management of scarce water resources, both at international and local levels. Click here to visit the official website of World Water Day 2007.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called "on the UN system and all stakeholders to forge stronger partnerships and take more concerted action, not only this year, but throughout the entire International Decade for Action: Water for Life, 2005-2015".

Click here to read the Secretary-General's message in full; and here to read more about the 'Water for Life' decade.