Michael Webb

Water’s not my favorite beverage, even though I know it’s essential to our lives. It has no taste, no texture, and most importantly for a college student like me, no caffeine. Yet here in the U.S., we can buy watermelon flavored water, filter appliances that make our water taste pure, and even powders or mixes to caffeinate our water. But this is not the case for billions of people around the world. Over 884 million people across the globe don’t even have access to clean water.

Every year, on March 22, the world gathers on World Water Day to raise awareness, present solutions, and demand more commitment from governments to put an end to the world’s water crisis. This year, join me as a host of organizations–including ONE, CARE, Catholic Relief Services and Water.org–celebrate World Water Day in a variety of exciting ways.

On Monday, March 22, don’t miss a conversation in Washington DC with high-level officials from the US government, corporations and NGOs at “Americans Doing Our Part,” an event hosted by Water Advocates and the National Geographic Society. On Tuesday, March 23, help lobby for clean water on World Water Advocacy Day–or spend your lunch break making a stand for sanitation by joining the attempt to create the World’s Longest Toilet Queue. But don’t panic if you can’t make it to D.C. You still can take action wherever you are by writing your Representative or spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter. So please join us in some way. We can only succeed if we act as ONE.

To find out how you can get involved, visit www.waterday.org.