On the World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, indicated that the theme of this year’s International World Water Day “Be the change” is a call for everyone to promote societal awareness of water conservation and storage and to develop alter-native water sources and regulations for a water-secure future.
He underlined that the water crisis, likewise any other global crisis, requires indeed a cohesive international com-munity that enables its stakeholders to work collectively around common goals by facilitating knowledge sharing as well as capacity building, and taking advantage of their synergies.
The OIC Secretary-General emphasized that the water security has assumed a strategic importance for the OIC Member States. He added that the challenges of ensuring reliable access to water and the management of unpre-dictable water-related risks, are becoming more pronounced. The enormity of the challenge requires indeed a col-lective response within a framework of cooperation at global, regional and sub-regional levels. —PR
