Sustainable development calls for concerted efforts towards building a resilient future for our societies. Interlinkages between water, energy, food and environment would also contribute to sustainable development. This sub-theme will focus on water for sustainable development considering the following topics:
- Promoting efficiency in domestic, agricultural and industrial water use
- Mitigating water quality degradation and pollution clean up
- Coping with water scarcity to achieve food security
- Water accounting for optimum water management
- Making clean water and safe sanitation accessible and affordable
- Interlinkages between water, energy, food and environment
- Managing water to alleviate poverty and hunger
- Progress towards achieving Goal 6 of the SDGs
- Public-private partnership (ppp) in water management
