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Supporting the goals and ideals of World Drowning Prevention Day.
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Bill overview
This resolution recognizes World Drowning Prevention Day, which aims to raise awareness and promote action to reduce drowning deaths worldwide. It highlights the significant global impact of drowning, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and acknowledges the preventable nature of these deaths. The resolution encourages international cooperation and the implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies, such as teaching swimming skills and improving flood risk management.
Key provisions
- Supports the goals and ideals of World Drowning Prevention Day.
- Recognizes the importance of drowning prevention efforts.
- Encourages intergovernmental cooperation on drowning prevention policies.
- Promotes convening multisectoral roundtables to discuss drowning prevention.
- Highlights the need for improved flood risk management.
- Encourages the teaching of swimming and water safety skills.
- Advocates for the creation of safe places away from water for young children.
- Supports the implementation of boating and shipping regulations.
Who is affected
- Individuals globally, particularly children and young people.
- Families and communities affected by drowning deaths.
- Low- and middle-income countries with high drowning rates.
- Communities vulnerable to flood-related drowning deaths.
Notable changes
- The resolution emphasizes the preventable nature of drowning deaths.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. RES. 606
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RESOLUTION
Supporting the goals and ideals of World Drowning Prevention Day.
Whereas drowning is the third-leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7 percent of all injury-related deaths;
Whereas drowning has caused more than 2,500,000 preventable deaths in the past decade, a silent epidemic of preventable loss;
Whereas drowning is among the 10 leading causes of death for children and young people aged 1–24 years in every region of the world;
Whereas flood-related disasters increasingly affect millions of people globally due in part to the escalating adverse impacts of climate change, and drowning is the leading cause of deaths during floods;
Whereas, more than 90 percent of drowning deaths occur in rivers, lakes, wells, domestic water storage vessels, and swimming pools in low- and middle-income countries;
Whereas over 90 percent of global drowning occurs in low- and middle-income countries, and in high-income countries, drowning rates are high among certain age groups and among minority ethnic groups;
Whereas the human, social, and economic toll of these losses is intolerably high, and entirely preventable;
Whereas the World Health Organization has set out six evidence-based, low-cost drowning prevention interventions that countries and organizations can use to drastically reduce the risk of drowning, including—
teaching school-age children basic swimming, water safety, and safe rescue skills;
providing safe places away from water for pre-school children;
training bystanders in safe rescue and resuscitation;
setting and enforcing boating, shipping, and ferry regulations; and
improving flood risk management locally and nationally; and
Whereas the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution in April 2021 recognizing the scale and impact of drowning globally, calling for coordinated multisectoral action to prevent drowning, and declaring July 25 World Drowning Prevention Day: Now, therefore, be it
That the House of Representatives—
supports the goals and ideals of World Drowning Prevention Day to catalyze concrete action and generate attention globally for drowning prevention and improved water safety;
recognizes the importance of this global advocacy event as an opportunity to highlight the tragic and profound impact of drowning on families and communities and offer lifesaving solutions to prevent it; and
encourages intergovernment cooperation to develop new drowning prevention policies, legislation, or investment, and to convene multisectoral roundtables or parliamentary discussions.