The United Nations has committed to focus on water for a decade. That’s ten years to advance sustainable development. Ten years to breathe new air into existing programmes and projects. Play your part and make a difference.
Explore the ways that organizations around the world are working on the water crisis.
On 29 May, 2020, an online event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Canada, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Tajikistan and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs with the support of UN-Water.
This high-level event under the framework of the Water Action Decade, allowed Member States along with the United Nations System and all relevant stakeholders to discuss water and climate related actions in support of the implementation of the Decade of Action. Participants presented transformative solutions to address systemic gaps in the implementation of related SDGs and identify “accelerators” necessary to drive progress on the 2030 Agenda.
Water and sanitation are preconditions to life and we must put a greater focus on these human rights. During the decade, the international community sets out to:
Learn more about the objectives in the UN Secretary General’s Action Plan.