International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further
efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources
A/RES/69/215
Council, including resolutions 24/18 of 27 September 2013
25 September 2014,3
2
and 27/7 of
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July
1980 on international years and anniversaries, the annex to which includes agreed
guidelines and criteria for the proclamation of international years, and General
Assembly resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December
2006 on the proclamation of international years,
Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development4 and
all its principles, Agenda 21, 5 the Programme for the Further Implementation of
Agenda 21,6 the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development,7 the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation),8 the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals 9 and the
commitments made therein and the outcome document of the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”,10
Recognizing that water is at the core of sustainable development, that it is
critical for the eradication of poverty and hunger, and that it is indispensable for
human health and well-being and central to achieving the Millennium Development
Goals and other relevant internationally agreed goals in the economic, social and
environmental fields,
Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goals on water and
sanitation, including the Millennium Development Goals, and noting that there has
been progress in halving by 2015 the proportion of the population without
sustainable access to safe drinking water,
Noting that accelerated efforts are needed to halve the proportion of the
population without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015, and to develop
integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans at all levels, and
in this regard acknowledging the importance of cooperation at all levels, including
support to developing countries, for the achievement of these goals,
Noting also national, regional and international efforts to implement the
International Year of Sanitation, 2008, the International Year of Water Cooperation,
2013, and the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and
numerous recommendations from international and regional water and water-related
events, with a view to taking concrete actions to accelerate progress at all levels
towards achieving the internationally agreed water-related goals contained in
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2
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
3
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. IV.
4
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
5
Ibid., annex II.
6
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
7
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,
resolution 1, annex.
8
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
9
Resolution 65/1.
10
Resolution 66/288, annex.
2/4