The Water Environment Federation (WEF) will join the United
Nations (UN) on Tuesday, March 22 in commemorating World Water
Day 2005. Commemoration of this event is an excellent
opportunity to strive for improvements and highlight the inter-
relatedness of water to human health and sustainable
development. The theme for this year is "Water for Life:
2005-2015" and marks the beginning of the UN’s "International
Decade for Action". The decade of action, proclaimed by the UN
General Assembly in December 2003, calls for an increased global
focus on water-related issues and encourages greater
participation and cooperation on all levels to achieve water-
related goals including bringing clean water and sanitation to
almost 1.1 billion people still lacking access to the finite
resource. This theme supports the primary goal of WEF, a not-
for-profit technical and educational organization, and the water
quality community to protect public health and ensure good
stewardship of the world’s most precious resource. "As leader