United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation

At the midpoint of the United Nations Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), the world is not on track to achieve water-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets at the global level by 2030 at the current rate of progress. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all is significantly off-track.

With just seven years to go until the end of the 2030 Agenda, swift and purposeful action is needed to change course and accelerate progress on SDG6, to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Responding to the high level of ambition set by UN Member States and stakeholders at the UN 2023 Water Conference, UN-Water released the milestone Blueprint for Acceleration: SDG 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation 2023.

As a result, in September 2023, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/RES/77/334) that, among other requirements, requested the UN Secretary-General to present to Member States the first-ever UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation, for which the UN Secretary-General relied on UN-Water’s assistance.