The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation A/RES/80/216 sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, ensuring that no one is left behind, Stressing the importance of monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals and targets, including the Goal on ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, in particular since, as shown in the Summary Progress Update 2021 on Sustainable Development Goal 6, the world is off track to ensure by 2030 sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, which also serves as a crucial enabler for achieving other Sustainable Development Goals, Recalling its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed the period 2018–2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, and its resolution 77/334 of 1 September 2023, entitled “Follow-up to the United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development’, 2018–2028”, in which it decided to convene the 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 and, in 2028, the United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the Internat ional Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018 –2028, Recalling also the designation, pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 47/193 of 22 December 1992 and 67/291 of 24 July 2013, of 22 March as World Water Day and 19 November as World Toilet Day, which are important opportunities to promote, among other issues, awareness of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and of the remaining challenges in this regard, Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of June 1992 16 and its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and emphasizing the critical importance of water and sanitation within the three dimensions of sustainable development, Recalling its resolution 76/300 of 28 July 2022, entitled “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment”, Noting the relevant commitments and initiatives promoting the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation made at recent regional and subregional conferences and meetings, Affirming the importance of continually improving the availability of high quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data on progress related to safe drinking water and sanitation services in households, educational settings, healthcare facilities, workplaces and other settings, including public places, as an indispensable means for States to plan for, implement and monitor the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for all without discrimination, Welcoming the fact that, globally, from 2015 to 2024, according to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025, the percentage of the world’s population using safely managed drinking water increased from 68 to 74 per cent, the percentage using safely managed sanitation services increased from 48 to 58 per cent and the percentage with access to basic hygiene services increased from 66 to 80 per cent, while, according to the report on Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 2020–2024: Special Focus on Inequalities, published by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization in 2025, the _______________ 16 25-20968 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. 3/9