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SIWI discusses Sustainable Water Solutions at the World Justice Forum in The Hague

Sanna — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:44:17 +0000

Water is the most basic necessity for life. Yet, access to safe drinking water affects almost half of the world’s population, particularly those in developing countries.

On Wednesday July 10, SIWI’s Dr. Anders Jägerskog will take part as a panellist in a session on Sustainable Water Solutions held at the World Justice Forum in The Hague. The session will place an emphasis on better management of water resources, as well as sanitation and hygiene.

The panel will discuss the important improvements needed in order promote better access to safe drinking water; the role of technology and governments in water management and infrastructure; and the importance of water safety in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

The Stockholm Statement and Reflections on the MDG Summit

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:45 +0000

The Stockholm Statement Our Goals Need Water
At the closing session of this year’s World Water Week, participants voted unanimously on a statement to the MDG Review Summit. The Stockholm Statement stipulates that MDGs cannot be achieved without giving more attention to water and sanitation as cross-cutting solutions for achieving the other goals in addition to their status as MDG targets.

Reflections on the MDG Summit
The timing could have been pure coincidence. But just one week after the UN Millennium Development Goal Summit in New York, the UN Human Rights Council recognised the right to water and sanitation as a human right.

A Sweet 16 for Water and Sanitation at the CSD?

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:39:30 +0000

When the 16th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meets May 5-16, 2008, at the United Nations in New York, a potential result of the meeting could be an outcome document which helps guide the international community and lasts until CSD-20 in 2012, when post-MDG (2015) water and sanitation regimes should be high on the agenda.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2008.

Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take?

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:35:07 +0000

This report, the abridged version of the full report Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take? underscores the need to focus on the global sanitation crisis, improve domestic water supply and invest in integrated development and management of water resources. All are necessary for countries to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability.

The actions proposed in this report are based on sound principles and fundamental truths and contributes to the understanding of the broader water resources management actions needed to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Key Recommendations: Health, Dignity, and Development

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:34:14 +0000

This is a brochure version of The UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitations key recommendations on how to increase access to water and sanitation. The report underscores the need to focus on the global sanitation crisis which contributes to the death of 3,900 children each day, to increase access to domestic water supply, and to invest in integrated development and management of water resources. All are necessary for countries to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability.

Investing in the Future: Water’s Role in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:31:23 +0000

Poverty, hunger, environmental problems and diseases would be directly combated and significantly scaled back if fought with water access as a primary goal. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lack access to sanitation.

This policy brief illustrates waters importance in the Millennium Development Goals and the efforts to combat the worlds most plaguing problems. It is based primarily on the Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation Interim Report, entitled Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation: What Will It Take?

Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2003

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:31:10 +0000

Water is the dividing line, as Kalpanatai Salunkhe succinctly put it. When viewed in terms of water, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targeting poverty and hunger seem to be in direct conflict with the goal on environmental sustainability. More about water consumption and food production can you read about in this issue of Stockholm Water Front, as well as the conclusions of Stockholm Water Symposium 2003.

Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2003

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:31:08 +0000

Drainage basin security will be a key to reaching the Millennium Development Goals was the message from the World Water Week 2003, a theory you can explore further in this issue of Stockholm Water Front, as well as other outcomes of the Week.

Introducing GoAL WASH

Nora — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:48 +0000

GoAL WaSH is an innovative new UNDP programme that aims to accelerate achievement of the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through strategically targeted interventions that strengthen governance of the water and sanitation sectors at appropriate levels.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2009.