The 2023 United Nations Water Conference adopted the "Water Action Agenda" to jointly promote sustainable development of water resources

2023-03-27

The 3-day United Nations 2023 Water Conference concluded at United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 24th. The meeting adopted the Water Action Agenda, which contains more than 700 commitments related to the protection of water resources, and covers a series of action plans, including capacity-building, data, monitoring systems, and infrastructure improvement. The United Nations Water Conference is the most standardized and influential water related thematic conference held by the United Nations in the past 50 years. This meeting was co hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, with a total of approximately 6000 participants from over 200 countries and international organizations around the world. In the face of an increasingly severe global water resource situation, all parties participating in the meeting jointly discussed solutions and called for strengthening international cooperation to jointly promote the sustainable development of water resources. On the eve of the opening of the conference, the "2023 United Nations World Water Development Report" jointly released by UNESCO and UN-Water pointed out that currently, 2 billion people (approximately 26% of the world's population) worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water, 3.6 billion people lack properly managed sanitation facilities, and 2 billion to 3 billion people experience water shortages for at least one month each year. If international cooperation is not strengthened, the problem of water shortage will become increasingly acute in the coming decades. It is expected that the global urban population facing water shortage problems will increase from 930 million in 2016 to 1.7 billion to 2.4 billion in 2050. The report emphasizes the need to ensure water, food, and energy security through sustainable water resource management, providing clean drinking water and sanitation services to all. "Water resources are in crisis. Access to water resources is a human right that is crucial to world development and conducive to achieving a better future for humanity." At the meeting, UN Secretary General Guterres called for strengthening the use of water resources from four aspects, including reducing the water resource management gap, large-scale investment in water and sanitation systems, strengthening resilience building, and addressing climate change. Guterres emphasized that the hope for human beings to enjoy water security in the future depends to some extent on a new scientific based route to achieve the Water Action Agenda, and on efforts by all parties to achieve commitments and translate them into action. At the meeting, the President of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Kelehi, proposed that all parties work together to establish a global water resource information system, "to help solve the challenges of access, demand, and storage of water resources.". He called for comprehensive land use, water resources, and climate related policies to make water resources "a lever for climate change mitigation and adaptation.". Kelleher also affirmed the results achieved at the meeting, "The $300 billion commitment made by all parties to support the Water Action Agenda is likely to release at least $1 trillion in socio-economic and ecosystem benefits." UNESCO Director General Azoulai said: "We urgently need to establish a strong international mechanism to prevent the global water shortage from spiraling out of control. Water is our common future, and we must take joint actions to share water resources equitably and manage water resources in a sustainable manner." With 6% of the global freshwater resources, China has ensured nearly 20% of the global population's water use, created more than 18% of the global economic aggregate, and accelerated the recovery of the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, More and more rivers

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