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WHY WATER

Water and the 2030 Agenda

In 2015, the global community launched the 2030 Agenda, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that should be reached by 2030. Some progress has been made, but for most of the goals, the world is not on track to meet the deadline. Water can help us do better.

Groundwater is the regulator of the entire freshwater cycle, but its invisibility makes it difficult to manage and protect.

Water governance

Many of the most pressing challenges in the world are about water: too little, too much or too inferior. Such challenges can only be effectively addressed through adequate governance of available water resources.

Water cooperation

Water is a growing concern in many parts of the world. Countries can improve their water resilience through transboundary water cooperation over shared waters.

Water and climate

The climate crisis is essentially a water crisis. When we treat it as such, we get new tools to mitigate climate change and adapt to consequences that are unavoidable.

Insufficient supply and inadequate infrastructure leaves millions of people in the world without water.

Agriculture and water

How to increase the productivity of agriculture around the world through better water management.

The impact of COVID-19

The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions of people back into poverty and exposed unacceptable gaps between the rich and the poor. One in three people are still not able to wash their hands with soap and water at home.

Water and conflicts

Will future wars be fought over water? The answer is probably no, but water scarcity can contribute to conflicts.

Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous peoples are the custodians of many of the world’s most fragile and important ecosystems. They also possess invaluable knowledge about sustainability and resilience, so they have a vital role in protecting our environment.

The source-to-sea approach focuses on the strong connection between what happens on land, along waterways, and in the sea.

Water in landscapes

A growing number of people, societies and companies are discovering the power of resilient landscapes. It is still possible to shift to more sustainable practices that recharge water, restore soil health, sequester carbon, and strengthen biodiversity – but we need to make the transformation now.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

More than two billion people in the world lack safely managed drinking water and twice as many lack safely managed sanitation, making WASH one of the most urgent development challenges.

While we all depend heavily on rivers for our survival, many rivers are under constant threat from unsustainable human activities

PERSPECTIVES

Youth and water

More and more young people offer important contributions to solving the growing water challenges they are inheriting.

Human rights and water

Having access to water and sanitation has been recognized as a human right since 2010. But water is also essential to ensuring the fulfilment of many other rights.

Gender and water

To improve water governance, we need to take a close look at gender roles.

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Conference.20 Aug 2023

Voices from the Field: Source-to-Sea Stories from Around the World

Source-to-Sea Water governance

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Conference.24 Mar 2023

Accelerating Blue Financing of Nature-based Solutions for water security and disaster risk reduction

Conference.24 Mar 2023

Promoting Private-Public Partnerships – A Vehicle towards fulfilling SDG 6 and Climate Actions

Source-to-Sea

Conference.24 Mar 2023

Localising the Blue Economy: A City-Basin Approach

Source-to-Sea

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Conference.23 Mar 2023

Source-to-sea collaboration: A game changer for the whole water cycle

Source-to-Sea

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Waterside chat.23 Mar 2023

Journey of Water from Source to Sea

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Conference.23 Mar 2023

Stronger together: Building resilience and prosperity through integrated and evidence-based management of the ocean-water continuum

Source-to-Sea

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Conference.22 Mar - 24 Mar 2023

Source to Sea events at the UN 2023 Water Conference

Water and climate Water governance ... Water and the 2030 Agenda Source-to-Sea

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Conference.22 Mar 2023

Source to Sea (S2S) approach: from methodology to practice

Source-to-Sea

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Conference.22 Mar 2023

Radical Collaboration for Water Resilience: Action with our greatest Allies in the Climate Crisis

Source-to-Sea

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Workshop.14 Dec - 16 Dec 2022

Global Workshop on Source-to-sea and River Basin Management Planning

Source-to-Sea Water governance

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Conference.16 Nov 2022

Enhancing Food and Water Security in the Arab States: Challenges & Opportunities

Agriculture and water Source-to-Sea ... Water governance Water and climate

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Conference.14 Nov 2022

The power of water: the unexplored potential for climate resilience

Water and climate Source-to-Sea

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Conference.11 Nov 2022

The Ocean, its ecosystems, and the UNFCCC: what actions now for effective Ecosystem based Adaptation

Source-to-Sea Water and climate

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Seminar.09 Nov 2022

Our Common Water Resources: Managing Water Streams from Source to Sea

Source-to-Sea Swedish Water House

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Conference.23 Aug - 01 Sep 2022

World Water Week 2022

Agriculture and water Cities ... Disaster risks and water Freshwater and ecosystems/biodiversity Gender and water Groundwater Health and water Human rights and water Indigenous knowledge Pharmaceuticals and water Resilience through water Rivers Source-to-Sea Stockholm Junior Water Prize Stockholm Water Prize Swedish Water House Textile The impact of COVID-19 Transboundary Water Cooperation Valuing water

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Conference.30 Jun 2022

Safety, equity and sustainability from source to sea — collaborative science-based and data-driven approaches

Source-to-Sea

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Conference.18 Nov 2021

UN Decade of Ocean Science

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Urban Adaptation in the Baltic Region

Source-to-Sea Cities ... Water and climate

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