Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Water and sanitation proposed as SDGs

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Re: Post2015: Share your solutions for water, energy, and food security

Post2015: Share your solutions for water, energy, and food security

This week, IUCN and the International Water Association (IWA) host an online consultation session on Infrastructure Solutions for the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus.

As part of the UN's 'The World We Want' initiative, the consultation platform allows everyone to have their say on development issues post 2015, from 11-17 March with a particular focus on water, energy and food.

The post 2015 water consultation has so far highlighted the need for development goals centred around water. The close interaction between water, energy and food - the nexus – is certainly part of that thinking. For example, increasing irrigation for food production, reduces the water flow left for energy generation (hydropower) and natural ecosystems and their services downstream (biodiversity).

The three elements; water, energy and food, are all inextricably linked, and so is their security.

By 2050, to feed a global population of 9 billion people we will need 70% more food. To ensure needs are met, engineered infrastructure, including dams, embankments, and wastewater systems are needed, but also well functioning natural infrastructure, such as healthy rivers, wetlands and forested hill slopes.

Addressing the competing needs for the water, energy and food nexus means exploring opportunities to optimize water infrastructure and technology to help shape and achieve the Post 2015 Development agenda.

You can join the discussion, participate in a poll, watch videos and more... by visiting the website www.worldwewant2015.org/water .

You can also follow on twitter (#waterpost2015) and/or Facebook (WaterPost2015)
Dr. Jonathan Parkinson
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Re: The Post 2015 Water Thematic Subconsultation: 14.01 - 10.2.2013

Dear all,

The water thematic subconsultations start next Monday, 14.01. 2013, under the coordination of the UN-Water, UN-DESA and Unicef. The process will be open for 5 weeks, until 10.02.2013.

The sub-consultations are under the following themes:

Wastewater Management and Water Quality

Led by UN Habitat, Aquafed, FAO, UN ELAC, UNEP, UNSGAB, and the International Water Association.

Water Resources Management, IWRM, Water Efficiency, and Security
Led by UNECE, FAO, GWP, IUCN, UN DESA, UNDP, UN ELAC, UNEP, UN ESCAP, WBCSD, and WWF

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Including the unfinished agenda, sustainability, safety, and financing. Led by UNICEF, UN-Habitat, WHO, OHCHR, and UNECLAC.

For more information: www.worldwewant2015.org/water

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Cecília.
Programme Officer at GIZ - Sustainable Sanitation Programme
and the SuSanA Secretariat

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Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Water and sanitation proposed as SDGs

Dear all
If you have not been involved in the post 2015 process on developing Goals Target and Indicators for future Development Goals this now a brilliant opportunity and you have to react with urgency- UN has launched the Webpage the World We Want and the consultation for the "watergoal " is in full swing. There is a global Watergoal outline
Water-secure World Challenge
100% access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation
#All wastewater is adequately treated before discharged into the (aquatic) environment
#INcreased by 50% water effeciency in agriculture and communal water supply
#All countries managing their water resources sustainably based on IWRM plan
#All 276 transboundary bsains have legal frameworks

The discussion is ongoing www.worldwewant2015.org/water
And you can contribute after your own capacities
Stay well
Madeleine
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