2. Encourages all Member States, the United Nations system and major groups to take advantage of the Year to raise awareness of the essential importance of freshwater resources for satisfying basic human needs and for health and food production and the preservation of ecosystems, as well as for economic and social development in general, and to promote action at the local, national, regional and international levels, and in this context calls for high priority to be given to the serious freshwater problems facing many regions, especially in the developing countries;
2. 鼓励全体会员国、联合国系统和主要群体利用淡水年，更好地认识淡水资源对满足人类基本需要、对保健和粮食生产、生态系统养护以及总体经济和社会发展的至关重要性，促进地方、国家、区域和国际各级的行动，在这方面，要求将许多区域、特别是发展中国家面对的严重淡水问题列为优先事项；