Written By Ngobi Ronald On Mar 22, 2023
This year, we focus on “water and environment for climate-resilient development” intending to address issues and challenges in achieving SDGs including but not limited to water and sanitation.
Today, all roads lead to New York for the UN 2023 Water Conference. The pinnacle is to garner support for the universally agreed goals and targets, including those in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; to deliver a Water Action Agenda, an anthology of premeditated vows and actions to scale up and replicate lessons, innovate, and improve what has failed to work, and decide future funding.
I hope that the endemic sustainability maze can be explicitly and implicitly among the sector issues to be discussed to receive the funding support and discussion it deserves. The UN 2023 Water Conference coincides with the Uganda Water and Environment Week organized by the Ministry of Water and Environment to house the water and environment events, including the World Water Day.
Today marks the World Water Day, established by the UN to celebrate the critical role of water in sustaining life on planet Earth and highlight the need for advocacy, information sharing, and learning for the sustainable management of water resources. This year, we focus on “water and environment for climate-resilient development” intending to address issues and challenges in achieving SDGs including but not limited to water and sanitation.
The lack of sustainability of WASH facilities is a gigantic challenge in providing WASH services, in the face of climate change resulting in what I call the functionality puzzle. Without sustainability, the objectives of WASH projects continue to be ineffectual. As of June 2022, 15% of the water systems in Uganda were non-functional, due to among others, the management paucity, yet with infrastructure stress due to the climate change impacts, population growth, and urbanization.
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