House Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that the United Nations World Water Day is held on 22 March each year;
2) further notes that this day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
3) acknowledges that the United Nations agreed to proclaim the years 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life" (Water for Life Decade) with the theme for 2012 being "Water and Food Security: The world is thirsty because ee are hungry";
4) further acknowledges that 4 our of every 10 people in the world do not have access to even a simple pit latrine and nearly 2 in 10 have no source of safe drinking water; and
5) encourages all to take an active part in highlighting the magnitude of the problem, but also to bring all stakeholders together to apply solutions that work.
Agreed to.