World Water Day 2025
19 March 2025
Every year on March 22, the world celebrates World Water Day by conducting various campaigns and initiatives aimed at raising public awareness about the global water crisis. The lack of access to clean drinking water for nearly 30% of the Earth’s population is one of the main aspects of the global water crisis, but also the increasingly frequent natural disasters, manifested by heavy rains, floods, droughts, storms, changes in the hydrological regime, etc., as well as the associated loss of biodiversity and disruption of ecosystems.
This year, the Directorate of the Central Balkan National Park will celebrate World Water Day together with the children of the Vasil Levski Primary School in the village of Shumata. With various eco-activities, we will help students increase their knowledge about water resources and how they can preserve and protect them.
The theme of World Water Day for this year is “Glacier Conservation” and since 2025 has been declared the International Year of Glacier Conservation, on March 21 we will also celebrate the first World Glacier Day. The celebration of the two significant natural dates will be united in a common idea for conscious, purposeful and comprehensive conservation of the planet’s water resources.
Glaciers, in our latitudes, are rivers of ice, often covered with snow, which slowly move downstream in high mountain valleys. They were formed during the Ice Age and have shaped the landscape in some parts of the high mountains. Nowadays, on the territory of Bulgaria, glaciers and traces of glaciers can only be observed in the Rila and Pirin mountains.
Glaciers play an extremely important role in the water cycle of the planet, storing huge amounts of water reserves, providing fresh drinking water, participating in the regulation of the Earth’s climate, etc.
As the planet gets hotter, glaciers are melting faster than ever, making the water cycle more unpredictable and extreme. Their decline threatens the Earth with devastation. For billions of people, meltwater flows are life-determining and life-threatening, causing floods, droughts, landslides and rising sea levels, etc. All this leads to one particularly important conclusion, which is the basis of this year's theme of World Water Day, namely - protecting glaciers is a survival strategy. Joint work is required to be able to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage meltwater in a more sustainable way for people and the planet.
You can read more about World Water Day 2025 and glacier protection here.
This year, the Directorate of the Central Balkan National Park will celebrate World Water Day together with the children of the Vasil Levski Primary School in the village of Shumata. With various eco-activities, we will help students increase their knowledge about water resources and how they can preserve and protect them.
The theme of World Water Day for this year is “Glacier Conservation” and since 2025 has been declared the International Year of Glacier Conservation, on March 21 we will also celebrate the first World Glacier Day. The celebration of the two significant natural dates will be united in a common idea for conscious, purposeful and comprehensive conservation of the planet’s water resources.
Glaciers, in our latitudes, are rivers of ice, often covered with snow, which slowly move downstream in high mountain valleys. They were formed during the Ice Age and have shaped the landscape in some parts of the high mountains. Nowadays, on the territory of Bulgaria, glaciers and traces of glaciers can only be observed in the Rila and Pirin mountains.
Glaciers play an extremely important role in the water cycle of the planet, storing huge amounts of water reserves, providing fresh drinking water, participating in the regulation of the Earth’s climate, etc.
As the planet gets hotter, glaciers are melting faster than ever, making the water cycle more unpredictable and extreme. Their decline threatens the Earth with devastation. For billions of people, meltwater flows are life-determining and life-threatening, causing floods, droughts, landslides and rising sea levels, etc. All this leads to one particularly important conclusion, which is the basis of this year's theme of World Water Day, namely - protecting glaciers is a survival strategy. Joint work is required to be able to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage meltwater in a more sustainable way for people and the planet.
You can read more about World Water Day 2025 and glacier protection here.
