Information
- Submitted by: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Topic: Water and sanitation
- Keywords: Global Water Quality, Water Quality Monitoring, Water Quality Assessment
- Location: Global
- Date of completion: 2015-12-31
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Deliverables & Resources
Improving Global Water Quality
Partner(s)
UNWater, Global Water System Project
Description/achievement of initiative
A mechanism to enable governments to establish policy and legal frameworks for addressing deteriorating water quality will be initiated.
Implementation methodologies
UNEP is committed to support the international process for improving global water quality through:
1) Developing International Water Quality Guidelines for Aquatic Ecosystems to serve as a reference for establishing national/regional policy and legal frameworks;
2) Strengthening global process for monitoring, storing and accessing water quality information
3) Keeping the global water quality under review through water quality assessment reports
Deliverables
| Deliverable | Date |
| International Water Quality Guidelines for Aquatic Ecosystems | 2014 |
| Global Water Quality Assessment Report | 2015 |
| Fifty percent increase of the global water quality data stored in the GEMS/Water databases | 2015 |
Resources
| Type | Details |
| In-kind contribution | International Water Quality Guidelines for Aquatic Ecosystems: $250,000 |
| In-kind contribution | Global Water Quality Monitoring Network: $1,000,000 |
| In-kind contribution | Global Water Quality Assessment Report: $420,000 |
| Financing (in USD) | $1,670,000 |