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  • Water for the Millennium Development Goals: Why managing water resources wisely is key to achieving the MDGs

    The eight development goals that emerged from the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000 galvanized an unprecedented coordination of efforts on the part of the world’s nations to improve the situation of the world’s poorest by 2015.

    The MDGs identify specific development priorities and targets: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, empower women and eliminate gender inequality, reduce child mortality and improve maternal health, combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases including malaria, ensure environmental sustainability, improve access to water and sanitation, and establish effective global partnerships towards achieving these development objectives.

    Marking the 10-year point towards meeting the MDGs, world leaders met in September at the United Nations headquarters in New York to review progress made so far, to identify areas of particular concern and obstacles hindering progress, and to develop strategies and actions to overcome these in the next five years. As a contribution to the debate, WWAP prepared a short white paper to highlight the crosscutting importance of responsible and sustainable water management to achieving each of the MDGs.

    Download ' Water for the MDGs' [PDF - 835 Kb]

  • Water Security: A Preliminary Assessment of Policy Progress since Rio

    December 2001 

    This publication was a WWAP contribution to the International Conference on Freshwater held in Bonn in December 2001, and to the 1st United Nations World Water Development Report. It reviews national policy developments since 1992, and takes stock of the eleven challenges defined by the Programme.

    Arabic [PDF - 2,31 MB]

    Chinese [PDF - 450 KB]

    English [PDF - 192 KB]

    French [PDF - 284 KB]

    Spanish [PDF - 209 KB]

    Russian [PDF - 517 KB]

     

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