Global action on water and sanitation challenges
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The UN High-Level Water and Sanitation Days 2015 are a set of coordinated events taking place from November 18 - 20 at UN Headquarters in New York. Participants will focus on the interconnected water-related Sustainable Development Goals targets which set forth a broad and ambitious vision for the next fifteen years.
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Selected Highlights of UN Actions on Water and Sanitation
- 1977 UN Water Conference held 14-25 March.The Conference is the first world intergovernmental meeting devoted to the crucial problem of ensuring adequate water supplies for the earth’s expanding population
- 1981-1990 is designated the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, A/RES/35/18
- 1990 Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) launched to monitor progress of access to water-supply and sanitation services at the country level
- 1993 General Assembly declares March 22 of each year to be World Water Day, A/RES/47/193
- 2003 is the International Year of Freshwater, A/RES/55/196 and UN-Water was formalised to coordinate all freshwater and sanitation related matters in the UN system
- 2005-2015 is designated International Decade for Action, “Water for Life” (A/RES/58/217)
- 2008 is the International Year of Sanitation, A/RES/61/92
- 2000 Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability has the target of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
- 2010 General Assembly adopts A/RES/64/292, The human right to water and sanitation
- 2011 “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015″ is launched
- 2013 is the International Year of Water Cooperation, A/RES/65/154
- 2013 The “Sanitation for All’ resolution, A/RES/67/291, is adopted by General Assembly, designating 19 November as World Toilet Day
- 2014 Thematic Debate of the General Assembly “Water, Sanitation and Sustainable Energy In the Post-2015 Development Agenda” is held
- 2014 End Open Defecation Campaign is launched to help end the practice of open defecation and improve access to toilets and latrines for people without basic level sanitation
- 2015 Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the General Assembly in September, outlines new sustainable development goals including SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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