23/03/2026
This World Water Day, we honor the water.
We honor those who protect it and who continue, despite everything, to stand for life.
Across the world today, water is moving and being impacted in ways that are both life-giving and devastating: from melting glaciers in the Himalayas, to the heavy rains and flooding impacting our relatives and communities across planet today, rising seas due to climate disruption, to communities facing contamination, drought, and deepening water insecurity. It is hard not to feel the weight of it all.
Water makes up most of who we are—our blood, our lungs, our brains. It regulates the Earth’s temperature and our own. It carries nutrients, protects our bodies, sustains all life.
And yet—nearly 97% of the world’s water is undrinkable, another 2% is locked in ice and glaciers, leaving just 1% for all of humanity.
Over billions people live without safely managed drinking water, and nearly half the world experiences severe water scarcity each year. Despite knowing that water is life, the challenges to protect it are endless.
Still, Water Protectors rise—to protect rivers, defend watersheds and aquifers, stop projects that threaten the water, remove what should never have been built in the first place, and come together with collective care under immense pressures and pain of struggle. These struggles are not abstract, they are fights for cultural survival and for existence.
We hold Water and Water Protectors both with deep gratitude.
