3. Encourages 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 calls for high priority to be given to the serious freshwater problems facing many regions, especially in the developing countries;
3. 鼓励会员国、联合国系统和主要群体利用淡水年的机会，使人们进一步认识到淡水资源对满足人类基本需要、健康、粮食生产和保存生态系统以及对整个经济和社会发展至关重要，并促进地方、国家、区域和国际各级的行动，而且要求高度重视许多区域、特别是发展中国家在淡水方面面临的严重问题；