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The United Nations Water Conference was the first intergovernmental meeting on problems ensuring adequate water supply for the future. Delegates from 105 countries, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, were also present. Its purpose was to avoid a water crisis at the end of the century.
The United Nations held its first water conference in decades, focusing on crises and solutions. ... In the American West, ... The first U.N. Water Conference was held in 1977 in Argentina.
The 1977 United Nations 'Water Conference' at Mar del Plata set up an International Drinking Water Decade, 1981-1990. Its aim was to make access to clean drinking water available across the world. [1] The decade focussed on safe water and sanitation for everybody by 1990.
The 1977 Mar del Plata Conference, The 1992 Dublin Conference was held in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro the same year. [4] One outcome of the Dublin Conference were the "Dublin Principles" [5] that are the founding pillars of IWRM.
Some of the areas of work of the Protocol are: small scale water supplies, water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events, water-related disease surveillance, equitable access to water and sanitation etc. [36] The Protocol on Water and Health entered into force in 2005. As of 2013, it has been ratified by 26 European states. [37]
By leveraging water in addressing our climate crisis, we may succeed not only in achieving net zero emissions, but become carbon-negative.
The United Nations and World Health Organization host the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program that uses One Water principles to monitor progress on local to global scales for attaining Sustainable Development Goal targets for “universal and equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene.” [10]
The International Law Commission (ILC) was requested by the United Nations in 1970 to prepare viable international guidelines for water use comparable to The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, which had been approved by the International Law Association in 1966 but which failed to address aquifers that were not connected to a drainage basin.