1. Gerard Payen

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Gerard PayenAquaFed PresidentChair of UNSGAB monitoring group

Viña del Mar, Chile, 19 March 2013

Towards an ambitious global Goal on Water

Un Secretary General’s Advisory Board

on Water & Sanitation “UNSGAB”

High-level independent boardcreated by Kofi Annan on 22 March 2004

To stimulate action by political decision-makers, with a focus on access to drinking water and sanitation

23 members from all continents

www.unsgab.org

AquaFedTHE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF

PRIVATE WATER OPERATORS

www.aquafed.org

Outline

• Current and future global goals

• Most critical water-related challenges

• Access and Human Right

• Wastewater management

• Efficiency of water uses

• Competition for global priority list

Current global goals end in 2015

Water Target:

Halving the proportion of population

without safe drinking water

Indicator: improved water sources

Sanitation Target:

Halving the proportion of population

without basic sanitation

Indicator: private sanitary toilets

2015

MDGs Post-MDGs ???

Aquafed

Development

Agenda

Sustainable Development Goals

Aquafed

SDGs

All 3 dimensions of Sustainable Development:

social, economical, environment

( Green Growth & Poverty Alleviation)

Jobs

Food

EnergyHealth Poverty

Water

Slums

Urbanisation

Global goals targeting results

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Measurable time-bound

Targets

Operational

Indicators

Global Aspirational

Goals

Content?

Ambition?

< 2015

Access to improved water sources

Access to toilets

1 Target on drinking water and sanitation

Environment

Goal

> 2015

Goal on watersecurity ?

3 Targets on most-critical

water challenges?

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HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON POST-2015

It will submit a report by 31 May 2013

Composed of 27 eminent persons,

to advise the UN Secretary-General on

a development agenda post-2015

Source: UNDP, N.Igloi, Dec 2012

OPEN WORKING GROUP ON SDGs

composed of 30 representatives

nominated by 70 Member States

It will submit a report, to the 68th session

of the General Assembly


(Status: 30 Nov. 2012)

NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS(Sept. 2012 – March 2013)


Bolivia

Brazil

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Peru

Santa Lucia

Latin America & Caribbean

THEMATIC CONSULTATIONS:

www.worldwewant2015.org

Youth

Health

Governance

LGBTI

rights

Economic

Inequalities

Indigenous

Peoples

Food Security

& Nutrition

Environment

Water

Population

Dynamics

Growth &

Employment

Conflict &

Fragility

Violence against

Women


The Water

stream

Outline







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4 (+1) main challenges

PoorAccessGrowing

scarcityPollution Disasters

Climate

mitigate remove anticipate

Access

improve

MDGs

What challenges and results should

be targeted at the global level?

Jan 2013 - UNSGAB Call for

a post-2015 Goal on Water

The Board recommends that the emerging post-2015 agenda

includes a dedicated and comprehensive Global Goal on

Water that reflects water’s comprehensive contribution to

development needs.

Such a post-2015 global goal on water should encompass

quantified, qualified and time-bound targets that respond to the

three following objectives:

1) Achieve universal access to sustainable sanitation and to

drinking water that is really safe,

2) Increase wastewater management and pollution prevention;

3) Improve integrated water resources management and water-

use efficiency.

UN online consultation on Water

The thematic consultation on Water was structured in 3 sub-

streams:

Access to safe drinking water, sustainable sanitation

and hygiene (WASH)

Wastewater management and water quality

Water resources management

Water was by far the theme that attracted the most people

with balanced interest between the 3 streams.

> Conclusions in The Hague on World Water Day (22 March)

6 dedicated paragraphs on Water(Same importance as Energy)

Water is recognised as necessary to all

3 dimensions of sustainable development

Commitment to implementing the Human Right

to Water and Sanitation

Inclusion of wastewater

Efficiency is also mentioned

Rio+20 > Satisfactory outcome for Water

Outline







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The truth

800 million people lack access to “improved” water sources

Access to water: the great hypocrisy

800 million people lack access to safe drinking water …

UN General Assembly, 26 July 2010

UNICEF-WHO , 16 March 2012

The common wording is untrue:

Billions of people lack satisfactory access to “safe” drinking water

Global needs for drinking water

Population 20086.75 billion

* UN Statistics (WHO-UNICEF)

** Estimate by G.Payen in Worldwide needs for safe drinking water are

underestimated: billions of people are impacted, Editions Johanet, 2012

« unimproved » sources*(shared with animals)

0.8 billion Probably unsafe

water**

Water of doubtful quality**

Right to safe drinking

water not satisfied**

1.9 billion

3.4 billion> 3.5 billion

Governments

to provide progressively

to all water

that is:

Implementing the Human Right

to Drinking Water and Sanitation

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without discrimination

acceptable

affordable

accessible

safe (drinkable)

in sufficient quantity

A multi-dimensional right

to be ensured progressively

Sufficientquantity

AvailabilityAccessibility

EquityNon-discrimination

Affordability

Safety

Acceptability

AquaFed3

Obligations of public authorities

International law:

respect the human right,

protect the human right

progressively ensure its satisfaction for the whole population

In practice:

Adopt appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks

Organise missions and means of the different institutions

Adopt inclusive policies with timeframes

Mandate operators (public, private, NGOs)

Operators are tools

to implement policies

Examples of progress on

each of the dimensions of

the human right to safe

drinking water achieved

through partnerships

between public

authorities and

private operators

www.aquafed.org

Right

How to incorporate the dimensions of the Right

to safe drinking water into post-2015 targets?

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Operational

safe Compliance to standards

acceptable Colour, odour

accessible, available 24/7, distance of source

affordable Tariffs, subsidies

in sufficient quantity Minimum pressure, etc

without discrimination Equitable access

AquaFed

Drinking water: what level of service

should be targeted?

GPayen estimates (to be further validated)G.Payen

Population

in 2015

0.6 bnMDG indicator

Human Right compliance 3.5 bn ?

UNAVAILABILITY <2 days in 2 weeks

SAFETY: E. coli < 10 CFU/100 mlIntermediate threshold 2 bn ?

ACCESSIBILITY:

Collection time < 30mnBasic threshold 0.9 bn?

2

7

10%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

20001990 2015 2030 2040 2050

Drinking water use – JMP draft

at home 22 Nov 2012

% of population

2

8

10%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

20001990 2015 2030 2040 2050

Sanitation at home – JMP draft22 Nov 2012

% of population

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Access to Water is deteriorating in the urban

half of the world1

The race between development of urban infrastructure and urban growth

1 See AquaFed press release on 7 September 2010and Ban Ki-Moon declaration on 22 March 2011

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> 80% of used water is discharged

without any pollution removal

Outline







Increase efficiency of water uses,

specially in irrigation

Water: “By 2050, without new policies…

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Source: OECD Environmental Outlook 2050, Key facts and Figures, March 2012

• Freshwater availability will be further strained, with 2.3

billion more people than today (in total over 40% of the

global population) projected to be living in river basins

under severe water stress

• Global water demand is projected to increase by some

55%, due to growing demand from manufacturing

(+400%), thermal electricity generation (+140%) and

domestic use (+130%). In the face of these competing

demands, there will be little scope for expanding

irrigation water use under this scenario.”

Outline







Existing goals + new needs

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Towards an ambitious post-2015 goal on water security

www.aquafed.org

Documents

1. Gerard Payen