Solutions for Water platform – World Water Forum 6th – Marseille 2012

As a result of the efforts of regional mobilization carried out since the very first edition of the World Water Forum, the Americas region launched the creation of the Water Forum of the Americas (WFA), a multi-stakeholder platform that aims at building consensus on water management issues in the Americas and at promoting the water agenda. The WFA is an autonomous and independent organization that gathers all-level government representatives, academicians, private sectors, water users and civil society, among others.

Targets

• Am1.1 By 2012 all countries in Americas are aware of the declaration of water and sanitation as human rights

• Am1.2 By 2020, at least half of the countries have decreased the existing gap in access to water services and to wastewater treated by 50%.

• Am2.1 By March 2012, carry out an inventory of water-related climate change adaptation experiences in the Americas

• Am2.2 Stimulate specific inclusion of water resources in new or existing national and local adaptation plans

• Am3.1 By 2012 create a network of legislators and mobilize existing journalists netowrks on water resources

• Am3.2 Identify institutional reforms implemented by countries that consider financial, environmental and social sustianability

• Am4.1 By 2015 increase the productivity of rainfed and irrigated agricultural lands

• Am4.2 By 2020 increase the use of treated wastewater and/or low quality water in agriculture

• Am5.1 By 2012, develop a Water-Energy Nexus Collaboration Network for the Americas

• Am5.2 By 2015 Carry-out an inventory of water and energy technologies, management systems, and practices

• Am6 All LA countries implement strategies that sustain ecosystem services from which water stewardship directly benefits