Major Group: Children & Youth
Major Group of Children and Youth
SDG Recommendations: Water
Honorable Co-‐chairs,
During the course of these two days, our colleagues have raised valid points when highlighting
that water use efficiency, water pollution, and sanitation still represent significant challenges of
our current developing model. The adoption of water efficiency goals has the potential to
promoting good water governance and improving water use in productive sectors such as
energy and water.
Therefore, we support the development of a SDG for water that addresses that highlights:
�� The importance of the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation
�� The important role of regulating the private sectors and supporting civil society in
meeting the water challenge.
�� The recognition of the water-‐energy-‐food security nexus in water distribution.
�� The development of specific water efficiency measures to track water use
throughout all sectors such as agriculture, energy, industrial and urban users.
�� The implementation of national and regional water-‐basin frameworks to improve a
mechanism for solving conflicts among water-‐users and promote the participation of all
stakeholders particularly women, children, and indigenous communities.
�� The reining in of the business sector's effort to privatize water resources to the
detriment of local communities.
Our suggestion of a goal would be: Promoting cross sectoral water efficiency:
o Indicator 1: Develop one international research program focused on water recycling
technology by 2015. The program must also promote cooperation between scientific
actors and urban planners, in order to make this technology adaptable for cities and
increase available funding by 50% for research into water efficiency and technologies.
o Indicator 2: Increase by 50% the current coverage of waste-‐water treatment before
2020, as a way to reduce the amount of pollution that is liberated to rivers and
groundwater due to human activity.
o Indicator 3: Increase by 50% the amount of subsidies available at the national level for
the promotion of water-‐efficient irrigation infrastructure by 2015.
o Indicator 4: Implement integrated management strategies in all trans-‐boundary basins
by 2020 to facilitate the equitable distribution of water between stakeholders.
o Indicator 5: Incorporate the human right to water into all national water strategies by
2030.
Thank you.
For more information about the UN Major Group for Children and Youth position on the
Sustainable Development Goals contact: olimar.maisonet-‐guzman@sustainus.org
SDG Recommendations: Water
Honorable Co-‐chairs,
During the course of these two days, our colleagues have raised valid points when highlighting
that water use efficiency, water pollution, and sanitation still represent significant challenges of
our current developing model. The adoption of water efficiency goals has the potential to
promoting good water governance and improving water use in productive sectors such as
energy and water.
Therefore, we support the development of a SDG for water that addresses that highlights:
�� The importance of the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation
�� The important role of regulating the private sectors and supporting civil society in
meeting the water challenge.
�� The recognition of the water-‐energy-‐food security nexus in water distribution.
�� The development of specific water efficiency measures to track water use
throughout all sectors such as agriculture, energy, industrial and urban users.
�� The implementation of national and regional water-‐basin frameworks to improve a
mechanism for solving conflicts among water-‐users and promote the participation of all
stakeholders particularly women, children, and indigenous communities.
�� The reining in of the business sector's effort to privatize water resources to the
detriment of local communities.
Our suggestion of a goal would be: Promoting cross sectoral water efficiency:
o Indicator 1: Develop one international research program focused on water recycling
technology by 2015. The program must also promote cooperation between scientific
actors and urban planners, in order to make this technology adaptable for cities and
increase available funding by 50% for research into water efficiency and technologies.
o Indicator 2: Increase by 50% the current coverage of waste-‐water treatment before
2020, as a way to reduce the amount of pollution that is liberated to rivers and
groundwater due to human activity.
o Indicator 3: Increase by 50% the amount of subsidies available at the national level for
the promotion of water-‐efficient irrigation infrastructure by 2015.
o Indicator 4: Implement integrated management strategies in all trans-‐boundary basins
by 2020 to facilitate the equitable distribution of water between stakeholders.
o Indicator 5: Incorporate the human right to water into all national water strategies by
2030.
Thank you.
For more information about the UN Major Group for Children and Youth position on the
Sustainable Development Goals contact: olimar.maisonet-‐guzman@sustainus.org