The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023 on Partnerships and Cooperation assesses the nature and role of partnerships and cooperation among stakeholders in water resources management and development and their role in accelerating progress towards water goals and targets.

Partnerships and cooperation are essential to accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) and realizing the human rights to water and sanitation. Safeguarding water, food and energy security through sustainable water management, providing water supply and sanitation services to all, supporting human health and livelihoods, mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme events, and sustaining and restoring ecosystems and the valuable services they provide, are all pieces of a great and complex puzzle. Only through partnerships and cooperation can the pieces come together. And everyone has a role to play.

The inadequate rate of progress on water and sanitation highlights the need to explore opportunities through partnerships and cooperation. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023 explores this theme, across regions, in relation to agriculture, environment, human settlements, industry, health and climate change.

IAHR contributions to WWDR 2023

Prof. Carlos de Oliveira Galvão, member of the leadership teams of IAHR’s technical committee on Water Resources Management and IAHR’s working group on Sustainable Development Goals, has contributed to Chapter 4 Water supply and sanitation for human settlements.

Prof. Rui M.L. Ferreira, member of the leadership teams of IAHR’s technical committees on Fluvial Hydraulics and on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, has contributed to Chapter 10 Data, information and monitoring.