SDG6 Clean Water and Sanitation

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2016, Water and Jobs

The 2016 report focusses on employment related to water, and the necessity of effective and sustainable management of the resource to ensure these jobs persist. The report discusses the main sources of employment that require water to be agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, resource-intensive manufacturing, recycling, building and transport. These sectors combined employee half of the global workforce, and thus adequate water management is critical. To ensure proper management, coordinated policies and investments are considered to be the most effective strategy.

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2015, Water for a Sustainable World

The 2015 report encourages the need for sustainable water use since water is at the centre of sustainable development. Pressure for water resources is increasing, which has been met with unsustainable development strategies. Combined, these factors have negatively impacted the quality and availability of water resources.

Introduction to Sustainable Development Goal indicators under FAO custodianship

This short course introduces the process of monitoring progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It highlights the role of UN agencies in supporting data collection and analysis, and it presents the SDG indicators under FAO custodianship.

Audience

This short course is intended as a quick introduction for all people interested in the process of data collection, analysis and reporting for SDG indicators, with a focus on indicators for which FAO is custodian agency.

Analytical Framework for Integration of Water and Sanitation SDGs and Targets Using Systems Thinking Approach

Success in achieving targets under SDG 6 on Water and Sanitation will to a large extent depend on understanding of the interdependencies with the other SDGs.

This publication presents a systems-thinking-based framework for integration of the SDG 6 targets with the 16 other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 161 targets.

Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific: Turning resource constraints and the climate crisis into economic growth opportunities

The Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific is offered to member States to help their policymakers turn the till-now trade-off between the ecological crisis and economic growth into a synergy in which resource constraints and climate crisis become opportunities for the growth necessary to reduce poverty in the region.

Despite the increasing demands for policy options to make economic development green, a clear blueprint that can lead us to a green economy, especially developing countries, is not yet readily available.

Water Markets in Asia and the Pacific: An Overview of Trends, Opportunities, Risks and Policies

Water security has become a very important challenge for the Asia Pacific region to be urgently addressed. How to most efficiently manage this scarce and finite resource, while catering to increasing demands related to industrial growth, agricultural production and rapid urbanization is a key challenge for the region. Erratic weather patterns are increasingly affecting water security and climate change may exacerbate the situation.

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