Access to water is a human right. World Water Day brings our attention to the importance of freshwater and the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
World Water Day 2025 will focus on the theme, 'Glacier Preservation,' to highlight the critical role of glaciers in sustaining life and the water cycle. Glaciers, mountain run-off, and snowmelt provide nearly two billion people with water for drinking, agriculture, and energy production.
Films | These short films feature communities coming together to celebrate and protect water.
Water Flows Together
By: Palmer Morse, Taylor Graham, Matt Mikkelsen
Water Flows Together elevates the importance of acknowledging Indigenous land in outdoor recreation through the voice of Colleen Cooley.
Spear. Spatula. Submarine
By: Shannon Morrall
In this short documentary about sustainability and activism, a community of passionate Floridians use creative removal methods to save the waters they love.
SLINGSHOT
Produced by:Paul Lazarus
Best known for his Segway Personal Transporter, inventor Dean Kamen is taking on great challenges one invention at a time. SlingShot is the story of Kamen, his water purification technology, and his innovative approach to the safe water crisis.
Protecting Coral Reefs
By: NOAA Ocean Today
NOAA and the National Park Service are creating a geo-referenced coral reef base map to better understand coral reefs
Ocean Guardians
By: Selket A Kaufman
Visionary creates grassroots social enterprise to prevent whale extinction.
Water Song
Produced by:Will Parrinello | Executive Producer: Goldman Environmental Prize
Máxima Acuña, a subsistence farmer in Peru’s northern highlands, stood up to Newmont Mining Corporation!
Water Is Sacred
Produced by:Mentors: Tiana and Wakinyan LaPointe
2020 MHIFF Ocean Conservation Award student winner: When we pray with water, it helps our bodies and the earth, and we say Wopila Tanka (Immeasurable Thanks) for its medicine.
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Avery Bazan
A collaboration between Oceans Unmanned and DJI utilizing drones to help entangled humpback whales.
Looking After Our Environment: James Price Point
Produced by:Mark Pearce
Mark Jones speaks out against a gas development complex that spells doomsday for some species living around James Price Point.
Conserving water
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Waterheart and Her Friends
Tianna Bluebird
A cut-out animation short about a mythical character, Waterheart, and the friends that help her to clean up her polluted home: Earth.
Water Crisis in our community
Produced by:Abdulai Bangura
Running for Water
Produced by:Polly Green
Jin Zedell started a worldwide movement for runners to raise funds for clean drinking water.
Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award cfe 5-1
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Stories of Present-Day Water Conservation Heroes
Colleen Cooley
By: Naomi Gledhill
Read about Colleen Cooley, a San Juan River guide featured in one of the winning films at the 20th Annual MY HERO International Film Festival.
Alexandra Cousteau
By: Mina Al Saddawi
Alexandra Cousteau is a visionary and trailblazer who pushes the boundaries of discovery, adventure, and global problem solving.
Charity: Water
By: Naomi Gledhill
Read this story about Charity: Water, the non-profit providing access to clean water to people across the globe.
Dorcas Lukwesa’s Mobile, Sustainable Farms
By: Abigail Richardson
Jon Rose - Humanitarian Hero
Produced by:Tom Aiello
Humanitarian Jon Rose brings clean water to the people of Haiti.
Trash Heroes
By: Elias Amador
Trash Heroes is an international, volunteer-led organization that mobilizes youth in over 12 countries to clean and prevent plastic waste in their communities.
Sylvia Earle
By: Edward Ortiz
"The key is to see ourselves as a part of the natural systems that support us."
Stories from The Christian Science Monitor
Scott Harrison
By: David Karas <br> Contributor of <br>The Christian Science Monitor<br> <h5>Pe...
Scott Harrison found meaning in life by starting charity: water
Scott Harrison of Unconventional Charity: Water
By: Cody Switzer <br> The Chronicle of Philanthropy<br> <h5>Permission to use th...
Scott Harrison of Unconventional Charity: Water aims to raise $2 billion for clean water.
Listen & Read Along
Jon Rose
By: David Kelly
Jon Rose
founded Waves for Water, which works on the front-line to provide clean water.
Fin Donnelly
By: Jenny Kim
Fin Donnelly swims to raise awareness of water pollution and is now a member of Canada's House of Commons.
Art
Water is Life
By: The Art Miles Mural Project
Environment - Life in the Clean Water and Air
By: Yasutomikita Elementary School in Japan and W.H. Day Elementary School in Ca...
Fishing
By: David Basasira of Uganda
River
By: Anu Monisha
Celebrating the Ocean
Water 3
By: Morgan Maassen
A short film about my affinity for the ocean, its mystery and power.
