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"Increasingly, there is a hopeless mismatch between the global challenges we face and the global institutions to confront them...there needs to be a new international institutional architecture."

- Prime Minister Tony Blair 2006

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Water

Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Date: 1 - 2 December, 2004
Hosted by: Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Affairs

Context: Lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation is a great humanitarian, social and developmental challenge. The failure to manage water effectively and provide proper sanitation facilities affects poverty and health while threatening progress towards economic development. Poor water quality and water shortages lead to water-borne diseases that impact more people?s health globally than any other health problem. The provision of safe water and sanitary conditions provide basic elements for reducing poverty in that they improve people?s ability to secure livelihoods, create local jobs in the sector, remove the incidence of disease, and if successful, can re-direct savings in health to other initiatives.

The combined leadership, flexibility, innovation potential and cooperation provided by the L20 process may serve as a catalyst for overcoming present political and institutional challenges. There are a variety of roles the L20 could play in addressing this global concern, such as: defining the necessary elements for a successful strategy; engaging the public and stakeholders at all levels; monitoring and assessing progress; mobilizing finances; strengthening local capacities; and creating international and intergovernmental networks.

Papers

Walid A. Abderraham File Icon Communiqué on Safe Drinking Water & SDS to All by 2025
Lyla Mehta File Icon Communiqué on Water - An Independent Arbitrator's Perspective
Maharaj Muthoo File Icon Arbitrator’s Draft
John Okedi File Icon Communiqué on Safe Drinking Water & SDS to All by 2025
Nigel Purvis & Nalin Sahni File Icon Financing Water - Toward an L20 Action Plan
M’hamed Sedrati File Icon Communiqué on Safe Drinking Water & SDS to All by 2025

Backgrounders

Ralph J. Daley, Zafar Adeel, Colin I. Mayfield, Caroline King and Velma I. Grover File Icon Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for All – A G20-Lead Initiative
Dr. Ralph Daley, Director - UNU International Network on Water, Environment and Health File Icon Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation

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