United Nations
A/RES/69/215
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 19 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2014
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/69/468/Add.1)]
69/215. International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”,
2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the
sustainable development of water resources
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/193 of 22 December 1992 on the observance of
World Day for Water, 55/196 of 20 December 2000, by which it proclaimed 2003
the International Year of Freshwater, 58/217 of 23 December 2003, by which it
proclaimed the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, to
commence on World Water Day, 22 March 2005, 59/228 of 22 December 2004,
61/192 of 20 December 2006, by which it proclaimed 2008 the International Year of
Sanitation, 64/198 of 21 December 2009 on the midterm comprehensive review of
the implementation of the Decade, 65/154 of 20 December 2010, by which it
proclaimed 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation and 67/204 of
21 December 2012 on the implementation of the International Year of Water
Cooperation, 2013,
Recalling also its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, in which it
welcomed the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development
Goals and decided that the proposal of the Open Working Group contained in the
report shall be the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the
post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be
considered, in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session
of the General Assembly,
Noting that in its report1 the Open Working Group proposes a goal of ensuring
the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,
Recalling its resolution 68/157 of 18 December 2013 on the human right to
safe drinking water and sanitation, and the relevant resolutions of the Human Rights
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