The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the decade 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Sustainable Development’. It will begin on World Water Day 22 March 2018 and end on World Water Day, 22 March 2028.
The draft resolution emphasizes that sustainable development and integrated water resources management are crucial to reach social, economic and environmental goals.
It stresses the importance of implementing such programmes and projects and promoting partnerships as well as the involvement of different stakeholders in order to accomplish the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, focusing the implementation of SDG 6, which is to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’
