Sustainable Development Goal 6: watering down justice concerns

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. e1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharachchandra Lele
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal 6

scholarly journals A Review of the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 from an Education, Training, and Research Perspective

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Ortigara ◽  
Melvyn Kay ◽  
Stefan Uhlenbrook
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Education Training ◽  
Synthesis Report ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal 6

In 2015, UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. Commonly known as the ‘water goal’, SDG 6 went well beyond the limited focus on water supply and sanitation in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and recognized the importance of all aspects of the water cycle in development and that water was embedded directly and indirectly in all 17 SDGs. In 2018, the UN published a report: “Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation 2018” (referred to in this paper as ‘the report’) that reviewed progress with SDG 6 at global and regional levels. Overall, the report concluded there was progress, but it was too slow, and the world was not on track to achieve SDG 6 by 2030 without a significant change of gear. The report was written primarily for those working in sustainable development to guide finance and resource allocation, but there was much embedded in the report that was of value to those engaged in research and in developing the much-needed capacity to plan and manage water resources, particularly in developing countries. This paper attempts to distill these issues and to ask how those involved in education, training, and research could contribute to enabling and accelerating progress towards achieving SDG 6. Three key areas of engagement were identified: the urgent need for more data and improved monitoring to assess SDG 6 progress and to enhance decision-making, the need to address the serious lack of human and institutional capacity that was constraining progress, and the challenge of taking research into policy and practice. Note: This paper is a review of selected aspects of the report (in which production the authors were chiefly involved as coordinators and editors), and as such most of the facts, figures, and discussion in this review are taken from the report. For this reason, we have not continually attributed them to the report to avoid repetition. However, in some cases, we have attributed report material to the primary sources where we considered it important to do so. We have also attributed material we have included, and which is not cited in the report. A review inevitably depends, to some extent, on the views of the reviewers and as such we have tried to make it clear where we are expressing our personal views rather than those expressed in the report. The report contains full references to all the primary sources.

scholarly journals Progress in Integrated Water Resources Management implementation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Julie Ladel ◽  
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Mahendra Mehta ◽  
Georges Gulemvuga ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Rio Conference ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal 6 ◽  
Practical Implications

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRW) has made significant strides since its definition following the Rio Conference on Sustainable Development. Part of Sustainable Development Goal 6, the implementation of IWRM is foreseen globally by 2030. Initially, planning water resources in an integrated manner was the focus of most projects/programmes; hence, nowadays most of the efforts are targeted towards its implementation with practical implications for the nations and their populations.

scholarly journals Managing Non-Sewered Sanitation for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhagato Dasgupta ◽  
Neha Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Service Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal 6

The challenge of ensuring clean water and safely managed sanitation towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal 6 is made more complex by unplanned urbanisation in South Asia. Nearly 50% of all toilet-owning households globally and 83% in South Asia depend on non-networked sanitation, with a multi-step service chain comprising containment, collection, conveyance, and treatment of faecal waste. Over the last few years, South Asian governments have begun to eschew the long-enduring preference for centralised sewerage infrastructure in favour of better management of non-networked sanitation as part of city-level wastewater management systems. However, these interventions have largely excluded the household-level containment systems that hold the potential to create both adverse localised and diffuse public health and environmental outcomes if dysfunctional. The present Chapter discusses evidence from a multi-state household survey in India to assess the nature and quality of containment systems in use by urban Indian households. Secondly, it reviews approaches to their governance under more evolved paradigms to inform an ecosystem-wide strategy for managing these systems in India and countries with similar contexts.

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