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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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News.Sep 20, 2023

New Steering Committee for the Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management announced

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News.Mar 23, 2023

Strong calls for more source-to-sea management at UN Conference

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News.Mar 16, 2023

Source-to-sea management high on the agenda at UN meeting

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News.Mar 07, 2023

Big win for the ocean – UN High Seas Treaty finally agreed

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News.Dec 21, 2022

Managing water holistically from source to sea

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Blog.Nov 14, 2022

Safely managed sanitation from source to sea

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Blog.Nov 11, 2022

What are we getting wrong about blue carbon?

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Blog.Nov 11, 2022

Mainstreaming source-to-to-sea thinking into climate action

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News.Oct 31, 2022

Protect the ocean to protect people and planet

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News.Jul 11, 2022

Piecing together the puzzle of a just blue economy from source to sea

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Blog.Jul 10, 2022

Looking upstream to achieve SDG 14

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Blog.Jun 28, 2022

Torgny Holmgren’s Address at the High-Level Symposium on Water

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News.Jun 23, 2022

SIWI brings a strong source-to-sea message to the UN Ocean Conference

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News.Jun 07, 2022

World Ocean Day: Saving the ocean starts on land

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Story.May 25, 2022

Lake Hawassa is what happiness looks like

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News.Apr 28, 2022

Asia-Pacific leaders call for source-to-sea management

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News.Apr 22, 2022

How source-to-sea knowledge can benefit the Asia-Pacific Region

News.Apr 11, 2022

5 trends from the World Water Forum

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Blog.Mar 21, 2022

Source-to-sea at the Ninth World Water Forum, Dakar

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News.Feb 28, 2022

Turn the tide on plastics – from source to sea

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News.Dec 15, 2021

Benefits of source-to-sea management recognized for strategic use in municipal planning

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News.Oct 13, 2021

We need to tackle disaster risk reduction from source to sea

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Activity.Oct 04, 2021

Transboundary collaboration from source-to-sea critical to address pressures on deltas, coasts and the ocean

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Activity.Aug 19, 2021

High-Level Panel on building resilience from source-to-sea

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News.Jun 08, 2021

We need to work together, from source to sea, to save the Ocean

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News.May 21, 2021

Turning the tide on biodiversity loss

News.Apr 07, 2021

A healthier world through water

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Activity.Apr 06, 2021

Special Issue focuses on Source-to-Sea

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Activity.Mar 25, 2021

Source-to-sea collaboration gaining traction

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News.Mar 23, 2021

Valuing Water from Source to Sea

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Blog.Feb 03, 2021

Source-to-sea management presented as a solution to the climate crisis at the 2020 Race to Zero Dialogues

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Blog.Feb 02, 2021

Water and Wetlands: interdependent and under threat

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News.Feb 02, 2021

Why a source-to-sea approach can help us reach the Sustainable Development Goals

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News.Jan 28, 2021

Action Platform for Source to Sea Management Launches New Strategy

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News.Jul 14, 2020

Source-to-Sea features during Virtual Ocean Dialogues

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News.Jul 06, 2020

Ethiopia and Viet Nam pilot source-to-sea management

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News.Jun 18, 2020

S2S Marine Litter Framework presented as solution on World Oceans Day

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News.Jun 08, 2020

Open Letter calls for urgent action to protect the world’s oceans

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News.Jun 01, 2020

Source-to-sea part of Virtual Ocean Dialogues

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News.May 22, 2020

Invest now in a blue-green future

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News.May 13, 2020

Turning the tides towards a holistic land-water-ocean approach

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News.Mar 04, 2020

Source-to-sea draws crowd during UN Ocean Conference Preparatory Meeting

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News.Dec 18, 2019

First ever training in source-to-sea approach to management held in Cartagena

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Blog.Dec 13, 2019

Great interest in source-to-sea at COP25

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News.Dec 04, 2019

Tackling land based pollution to protect our oceans: Time to join forces!

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News.Sep 23, 2019

Water must be in focus at UN Summits

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News.Sep 05, 2019

Source-to-Sea Framework for Marine Litter Prevention – Released!

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Blog.Jul 08, 2019

The blue thread: How water connects the SDGs

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News.Jul 05, 2019

Source-to-Sea practitioners guide released!

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Blog.Jul 01, 2019

Growing debate on water and consumption

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