Water for Sustainable Development: Valuing Water…

Water is a key socioeconomic driver of sustainable growth, livelihood, justice, food security and labour. Access to clean and sustainable sources of water is currently gravely imbalanced. However, without equitable and secure access to water for all, there can be no sustainable development. Water availability is a global challenge, yet one whose solutions must be understood and implemented at the local, national, regional and global levels.

Co-chairs

• H.E. Mr. Li Guoying, Minister of Water Resources, People's Republic of China

• H.E. Ms. Dubravka Šuica, European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, European Union

Moderator 

• Ms. Myrna Cunningham Kain, Indigenous Peoples Major Group on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Panellists

• (Keynote) H.E. Mr. A.K. Abdul Momen, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
• H.E. Mr. Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water of Morocco
• Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, USG and Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
• Mr. Tālis Juhna Vice-Rector for Research and Professor at Riga Technical University

Lead Discussants

• Mr. Yong-deok Cho, Secretary-General at Asia Water Council  
• Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Ms. Dinara Ziganshina, Director of the Scientific Information Center of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination in Central Asia
• Mr. Abou Amani, Director for Water Sciences, Secretary of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, UNESCO