World Water Day 2011

World Water Day, Tue 22 March: a crucial moment in the fight against the global sanitation and water crisis.

Thanks to everyone who walked for water, invited their MP to walk with them at Westminster, talked about water, tweeted a #worldwaterday message (helping it to become a top trending topic), or did anything else to mark World Water Day!

Read a full round-up of the event here
Watch a video report by the Linconshire Young Journalists Academy (on YouTube)
Watch a short film about the Westminster event below:

Special thanks to all the MPs who visited us at Westminster and pledged their support and solidarity for the nearly 900 million people who still do not have access to clean water.

But the action doesn't just last for a day! Get involved:

Sign our petition

Andrew Mitchell pumping water at Westminster. Picture credit: WaterAid/Andrew Aitchison

WaterAid is asking you to take action and sign our new petition to the International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell (pictured).

It calls on the UK Government to raise its ambition even further and help more people gain access to clean water and safe sanitation.

Please sign the petition here.

Get blogging and tweeting

Top 10 snooker ball World Water Day may have been and gone, but we still need people to make an online noise about the global water and sanitation crisis!

Please read, copy and share our list of Top 10 things people could be doing if they didn't have to fetch water every day: www.wateraid.org/top10

If you have not found us on Facebook yet, please do! Then watch out for regular updates about our campaign to get the UK government to do even more, and re-post when you can. Thanks!

On Twitter, please follow us, mention @wateraid to your followers, and when you tweet about water and sanitation please use the #wateraid hashtag. Thanks!

WaterAid is a member of UN-Water. To find out more about other activities taking place on World Water Day, visit their website.

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World Water Day 2011