Monday 23 August | 17:00 - 18:25 CEST    Simultaneous translation in FR & ES -- Wednesday 25 August | 07:30 - 08:55 CEST Simultaneous translation in AR & RU As a member of the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG6, coordinated by UN-Water (IMI-SDG6), and custodian agency for SDG indicator 6.4.1 (change in water-use efficiency)...

Agriculture is essential to achieving food security and supporting livelihoods and economies. Population increase, unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and climate change are critical drivers for increasing water stress. Urgent responses are required to improve agriculture water management, well integrated with other competitive sectors, particularly in water scarce regions. Sustainable...

Side-event in English available here. French version available here. See also the summary and highlights from the event here. For more information on the event and to see the agenda, visit the dedicated webpage.

Worsening soil pollution and waste proliferation threaten the future of global food production, human health and the environment, and require an urgent global response, according to a joint...

Water tenure is a recent concept. A working definition of water tenure is “The relationships, whether legally or customarily defined, between people, as individuals or groups, with respect to water resources”. The concept of water tenure embraces and interconnects various SDG goals, and hence is useful for achieving the Agenda 2030, in...

Food system transformation is needed to address the hundreds of millions of people without adequate access to water or food for a healthy life. Nutrition and malnutrition are inextricably linked to water for food, sanitation, hygiene. With 30 percent of the world’s population living in water-stressed environments, the impacts of...

The new FAO Water Report “Guidance on realizing real water savings with crop water productivity interventions” includes clear and practical guidelines on how to implement ‘real’ water savings in agriculture through interventions for enhancing crop water productivity. A distinction is made between real water savings and “apparent” water savings. Apparent water...