Announcement

Water for Life Best Practices Award 2011

Winners of first award edition will be announced and celebrated at World Water Day 2011

UNITED NATIONS, Zaragoza, Spain: As part of the World Water Day celebrations, two outstanding programmes will be receiving on 22nd of March 2011 the “Water for Life” Best Practices Award in two categories:

* Category 1 - Best water management practices

·Category 2 - Best Participatory, Communication, Awareness-raising and Education Practices

The winners will be awarded their prize during the “Water for Life” Best Practices Award Ceremony in Zaragoza, Spain, with live connection to the main United Nations World Water Day event in Cape Town, South Africa.

The annual prize aims to highlight those organisations or individuals displaying outstanding merit and achieving particularly effective results in the field of water management or in raising awareness in water issues.

The first Award edition 2011 focuses on urban water, reflecting the theme of the 2011 World Water Day. The “Water for Life” Best Practices Award is organized by the United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” 2005-2015, which implements the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC), and the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP).