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Winners of Walk of Water -Water Towers 2025 photo contest
The photo contest is part of the Walk of Water: An Intergenerational Journey, an initiative promoted by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) and OneWater to merge art, culture and science to share clear messages on the state of water around the world.
This year's call received over 7,000 entries from 104 countries.
The theme, Water Towers, aligned with the UN World Water Development Report 2025 on mountains and glaciers, to be launched on 21 March, encouraged creative depictions of glaciers, traditional water towers, and innovative water storage solutions.
The competition awarded 20,000 € in prizes, supported by MPB, the Asian Development Bank, Onewater, and the City of Burghausen.
The diverse submissions feature breathtaking scenes of ice climbers in the Alps, indigenous festivals in the Andes, the world’s highest city, Africa’s last glacier, and polar landscapes, underscoring humanity’s connection to water and the need to protect mountains and glaciers, our planet’s natural water towers.
The photographs will be featured in a global traveling exhibition throughout 2025 and will be visible on UNESCO fences in Paris from 11 March 2025.
Ladakh, India. The stupas are created by channeling water from higher altitudes through underground pipes. As the water is sprayed upward in subzero temperatures, it freezes into towering ice formations that can hold millions of liters of water.
Presena glacier, Italy. A part of the snowpack on the top of the mountain covered with geotextile sheets to prevent ice melting
Svalbard, Norway. A towering iceberg wall rises gently from the ocean.
