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Water and Sanitation
How to contribute
  • Comment on Cluster Position Papers
  • Upload relevant material under "Contributions from MGs"
Steering Committee
Members & Contributors
Name Organization
Allan JonesWorld Chlorine Council
Carlos MarentesLA VIA CAMPESINA - International Peasant Movement
Carmen RicherzhagenGerman Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Felix Kaba Kelugu AnevangnaZoomlion Ghana Limited
Gil CakirUnited Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Kimbowa Richard Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development - Rio and beyond
Lea FellussInternational Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Marie-Luise AbshagenForum Umwelt und Entwicklung
Matthew Reading SmithStakeholder Forum
natalene poissonUnited Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Ross BaileyWaterAid
rubina khan pakistan relief foundation
stella joyActive Remedy Ltd
Yunus ArikanICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Contributions

As a registered (online registered, through this website) major groups organization, you may contribute to the work of Steering Committees of the Thematic Clusters by uploading articles, background or position papers that relates to the Thematic Cluster and towards formulation of a Sustainable Development Goal of that particular cluster. See full list of Thematic Clusters here.


Fresh water sustainability needs to be made central to Sustainable Development, as it is the axel around, which all else revolves. It is the element around, which life on Earth has evolved.
Active Remedy Ltd on 11:27 am, 13 Nov, 2014
Stakeholder Forum has produced a 'Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas'. A section is devoted to targets and indicators related to water and sanit...
Stakeholder Forum on 6:11 am, 7 Apr, 2014
Whilst we are very pleased to see the references to water and sanitation in this position paper, (subjects to which we give strong support) we are concerned about one inaccurate and unsubstantiated st...
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on 12:39 pm, 3 Apr, 2014
Sufficient and clean water is essential for life on earth. It is one of the most important foundations and resources for social and economic development and is a decisive factor in poverty alleviation...
Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung on 6:04 am, 22 Jan, 2014
Sufficient and clean water is essential for life on earth. It is one of the most important foundations and resources for social and economic development and is a decisive factor in poverty alleviation...
Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung on 6:03 am, 22 Jan, 2014
WaterAid’s vision for post-2015 is an ambitious new development framework unifying poverty eradication and sustainable development objectives, supported by a renewed global partnership ensuring effe...
WaterAid on 10:18 am, 7 Jan, 2014
Protecting and restoring the environments, which the fresh water cycle is dependent upon is central to achieving water security. This is essential in achieving long term SDG's
Active Remedy Ltd on 1:01 pm, 22 Nov, 2013
Water and sanitation are central to each of the three dimensions of sustainable development (The Future We Want, paragraph 119). Water disinfection and particularly chlorination, an efficacious and co...
World Chlorine Council on 8:39 pm, 19 Nov, 2013
Lake Victoria basin is faced with challenges including land use and land degradation due to pressure induced by the fast growing population; water quality decline and pollution due to eutrophication a...
Lake Victoria Climate Change Readiness Brief No.2 (July 2013) by the EA SusWatch Network on how far how regional block - the East African Community (EAC) has moved to implement its Climate Change Poli...
Statement delivered by Maruxa Cardama from ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability

Summary:
There has been hardly any delegation that has not mentioned the local dimension of water and sanitati...
Local and regional authorities consider Water and Sanitation Management as a Global Issue and request that access to water and sanitation be ensured as a basic service, a strong tool to reduce poverty...
The post-2015 agenda should reflect the importance of water, energy and land and their interrelatedness, the resource nexus. Goals of a new development agenda have to mirror the different dimensions o...
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