Junior Chamber Rotterdam started World Wide Water Awareness at the end of the 1990s, realising that water is as necessary as scarce. Water is an important source of life, but 1.2 billion people lack access to safe water. Nearly 3 billion people do not have adequate sanitation. The jaycees felt that this global problem only can be solved if the stakeholders contribute to finding a solution.

A first step was to publish the book 'The Voice of Water' where different sides of the problem everywhere in the world are described. You still can order the book.

A foundation is the legal base of World Wide Water Awareness.

The next step is cooperating, networking, finding projects and ideas to carry the concerns for availability of water further. Important in this vision is the contribution in the Water Forums, but World Wide Water Awareness also aims to collect and distribute information, sources and knowledge to enable water related projects.