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Billions of people around the world suffer from inadequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Water sources are increasingly polluted, and the natural ecosystems providing this resource are disappearing. Climate change causes extreme phenomena, i.e. Droughts or floods. Water is a topic that concerns everyone and anyone, and it will take center stage at the UN Water Conference 2023 in New York from March 22 to 24.
UN Water Conference 2023 – Issues
At the UN Headquarters in New York on October 25, 2022. the topics selected as a result of the consultations for the five interactive dialogues to be held as part of the conference have been announced:
- Water for health: access to safe drinking water, hygiene and sanitation.
- Water for sustainable development: water pricing, the water-energy-food nexus, and economic and urban sustainability.
- Water for climate, resilience and the environment: source for the sea, biodiversity, climate, resilience and disaster risk reduction.
- Water for Cooperation: transboundary and international water cooperation, intersectoral cooperation (including scientific cooperation), and Agenda 2030 water.
- A decade of action on water: accelerating the goals, including through the UN Secretary-General’s Action Plan.
This year’s United Nations Water Conference comes at a crucial time. Indeed, the growing global water crisis needs to be urgently addressed in order to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and accelerate progress in connection with access to water and improved sanitation.
