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UN-Water members and partners have helped embed water and sanitation in several agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (which led to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the 2015 Paris Agreement within the UN Convention Framework on ...
A similar definition of water security by UN-Water is: "the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for ...
The Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace was created in 2015 in Geneva [1] at the initiative of 15 co-convening UN Member States to analyse water in the context of maintaining peace and security and to move this issue from a technical to a political level. [2]
In July 2010, United Nations (UN) General Assembly Resolution 64/292 reasserted the human right to receive safe, affordable, and clean accessible water and sanitation services. [6] During that General Assembly, it stated that for the comprehension of enjoyment in life and all human rights, safe and clean drinking water as well as sanitation is ...
The water report is only the second such analysis done by the WMO and includes data from large Global water cycle 'spinning out of balance': UN meteorological agency Skip to main content
The organization is a research and training institute of the United Nations University (UNU), the academic arm of the United Nations, with a mandate to address water security and access issues internationally. UNU-INWEH was created in 1996 in response to an emerging concern about the growing global water crisis and its harmful impact on human ...
It continues to promote and lead international hydrological research, facilitate education and capacity development and enhance governance in water resources management. [2] The aim of these efforts is to help meet the UN Millennium Development Goals on environmental sustainability, water supply, sanitation, food security and poverty alleviation.
The water, energy and food security nexus according to the Food And Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), means that water security, energy security and food security are very much linked to one another, meaning that the actions in any one particular area often can have effects in one or both of the other areas.