As a participant in the discussions and a solution provider, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT contributed throughout the Forum week to the exchanges and shared its know-how with all the stakeholders in the water sector.

The 6th World Water Forum brought together 250 members of Parliament from all over the world who collectively committed themselves to take a series of measures corresponding to their own prerogatives as Parliamentarians.

Already several rhymes have been composed. In the coming weeks they shall be improved upon ans sound tracks will be developed for them. The Authorities in Education, Water and Environment and Legislators at Federal, State and Local levels will be the target. But on our own we will start with a pilot project in Ogun State.

Institutional strengthening and capacity of “Federacion Nacional de Cooperativas de Servicios Sanitarios, FESAN”, a non profit organization, www.fesan.coop, to integrate under cooperative principles 100 small operators of water and sewage services, attending 50.000 families in rural areas in the central part of Chile, to improve their management and technological capabilities through the creation of 3 Community Learning Centres in Water & Sanitation, in Maule, Requegua, and Hospital-Champa in Chile.

The Core Group and target coordinators of 1.1 commit to join forces through a Task Force for the Implementation of the Human Right to Water (ImRight TF) to maintain the momentum and boost action on:
- Linking the 4 As: Boosting global links between the Acquisition of data (monitoring), Analysis, Advocacy and Action
- Strengthening Local Capacities and Financing: Boosting capacity building and access to finance at the local level
- Encouraging National Campaigns and Dialogues: Boost wide exchanges and long term partnerships at the national level and in both rural and urban areas.

The Government of Ethiopia is committed to establish self-supply as a service delivery mechanism for rural water within the national WASH programme – and alongside community-managed approaches – in order to reach some of the more than 30% citizens without safe water access. Promoting and supporting self-supply will encourage families to protect and make self-supply sources safe and use them productively. Government intervention focuses on developing the enabling environment, promoting the approach, capacity building, technology development, developing water works enterprises and supply chains for low-cost technologies and facilitating access to existing credit mechanisms for households and enterprises. Investment in water sources is led by households.

The Government of Ethiopia is committed to establish a Consolidated WaSH Account in 2013 and through that account finance & implement One National WaSH Program with aligned, harmonized & integrated mechanisms in partnership with all external financiers, NGOs and private sector. Ethiopia is committed through this integration to provide nearly all citizens in Ethiopia full access to water and sanitation services in accordance with the Growth and Transformation Plan of Ethiopia.

These Rural Water Supply’s commitments were endorsed and approved by the delegates to the 6th International Forum of the Rural Water Supply Network, 1st December 2011 and presented at the 6th World Water Forum, 16th March 2012, calling for long term partnerships to achieve accessible safe water supply for all by, at the latest, 2030.

Gathered in Marseilles on the occasion of the 6th World Water Forum on 16 March 2012, We, representatives of river, lake or aquifer basin organizations, from different parts of the world, subscribe to the present “World Pact for better basin management” in view of the development of integrated and joint water resources management at national, regional and
transboundary level to meet the challenges facing our planet.

To deepen its knowledge of the synergies of actions between water and electricity, the EDF Group makes a commitment to invest the necessary means in the development, with the scientific community, of the methods and the tools to estimate the water footprint of its activities of electricity production, within the territories which welcome its facilities.