Guided Paper-Water Accounting Reporting System –WARS Framework from Concept to Implementation for Sustainable Water Management

Amgad Elmahdi
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Amgad Elmahdi: Head of MENA Region, International Water Management Institute-IWMI, Egypt

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2020, vol. 23, issue 4, 122-130

Abstract: Four years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, UN-Water reports show the world is off track to achieve the water goal – the heart of the SDGs-, thus the same goes for all water related SDGs (only 10 years to harvest SDGs). Amid lots of highlights on what we need to do, governments must decide how to incorporate SDG 6 targets into national planning processes, policies and strategies and set their own targets, taking into account local circumstances and contexts including cultural. The SDGs anticipate substantial improvements in the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of water use; safe treatment and reuse of wastewater; integrated approaches to water management; and, the resilient food production systems. When well-adapted and well-implemented, water accounting provides countries and/or regions that face increasing water scarcity a sound and transparent basis for managing the scarce water resources and take actions to achieve relevant SDGs and other targets including evaluating water resources plan and developments.

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Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.23.556118

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