The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, made an official visit to Sweden and World Water Week, organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute 20-24 August.
The aim for the week is having high-level discussions on water, climate, and the sustainability transformation, with representatives of the Government and the State, as well as with scientific, research and academic centres. The theme being Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World.
Csaba Kőrösi pointed to the importance of the upcoming SDG Summit, connecting the UN Water Conference in New York in March, the World Water Week now and the SDG Summit that’s now less than a month away.
Second, Kőrösi noted that at the Water Conference we understand how to manage better, value, and protect water. We understand that we need new economics on water, and it is being developed.
SDGs: sever situation
“In the case of the SDGs, we are probably in a more severe situation and the level of implementation of the targets are mostly off track. About 12% of the targets are on track in the implementation. So, there is a lot to be learned from the water experience and lot to be done,” Csaba Kőrösi warned.
Photo: SIWI.
Hydrologist Andrea Rinaldo, an Italian national, was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, which is considered the Nobel Prize for Water. The committee noted that “he has showed the key connections between river networks and the spread of solutes, aquatic species, and diseases”.
World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues, held every year since 1991.
