World Drowning Prevention Day 2025
Join Us in the Fight Against Drowning on World Drowning Prevention Day 2025!
The yearly observance of World Drowning Prevention Day on July 25th serves as a worldwide rallying cry to end the horrific toll that drowning takes. Today, we must not forget the need to combat one of the top causes of accidental death on a global scale. The United Nations General Assembly endorsed Resolution A/RES/75/273, "Global drowning prevention," in April 2021.
Prompt Action to Avoid Drowning
Drowning claims the lives of an estimated 236,000 people annually, making it one of the top killers worldwide, particularly among youngsters ages 5 to 14. Rivers, lakes, wells, and home water storage places are the primary targets of these fatalities, which disproportionately impact nations with poor or medium incomes. Families and communities are hit hard by these losses, which create an unfillable hole.
Worldwide Stroke Awareness Day Goals:
Bringing Attention to the Problem: Bringing attention to the issue of drowning on a global scale, emphasizing its effects, and promoting effective measures to prevent it.
Advocating for Safety: Inspiring people to take swimming classes, use lifejackets when boating, and put up barriers to keep unwanted people out of bodies of water.
Advocate for policies that fund research into new methods of preventing drowning and work to have these policies enacted.
Working Together to Eliminate
On this, World Drowning Prevention Day, people from all walks of life, from communities to governments, get together to talk about how to stop people from drowning. We can make the world a safer place for everyone—especially our kids—and lessen the toll this avoidable cause takes if we work together.
Doing Something
Multiple avenues exist through which you can aid in the fight against drowning:
Get Educated: Acquire water safety information and disseminate it to your loved ones and neighbors.
Back Initiatives to Reduce the Risk of Drowning: Help prevent drowning by becoming engaged or making a donation to an organization that does so.
Activate for Change: Push for the establishment and enforcement of safety measures by local authorities in areas around bodies of water.
The Effects of Your Engagement
Being a member of World Drowning Prevention Day signifies that you are contributing to a worldwide effort to rescue victims and forestall such catastrophes. No matter how little you do, it all adds up to help make the world a safer place.
Remembering the lives lost is important, but World Drowning Prevention Day is also a time to do something, spread awareness, and stop people from drowning in the future. The tide may be turned against drowning and the most vulnerable among us can be protected if we work together. Come be a part of an international effort to end drowning on July 25, 2025.
| Year | Theme | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Global Drowning Prevention | Declared by UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/75/273, this day highlights the tragic impact of drowning and promotes life-saving solutions. It urges coordinated action to prevent drowning, emphasizing measures such as barriers, safe places for children, swimming and rescue skills, and safe boating regulations. |
| 2022 | Do One Thing to Save Lives | Focuses on the preventable nature of drowning and encourages everyone to take at least one action to prevent drowning. Highlights include installing barriers, providing safe places for children, teaching swimming and rescue skills, and improving flood risk management. |
| 2023 | Anyone Can Drown, No One Should | This year's focus is on raising awareness about the public health issue of drowning, emphasizing that it can be prevented. The WHO promotes six evidence-based interventions, including barriers, safe places for children, swimming and rescue skills, safe boating regulations, and improved flood risk management. |
| 2024 | Anyone Can Drown, No One Should | Emphasizes the sudden and often unnoticed nature of drowning incidents and the importance of awareness and preventive actions. Encourages sharing stories on social media to raise awareness and promote drowning prevention measures such as swimming lessons, supervision of children, avoiding alcohol near water, checking conditions, and using safety equipment. |
