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Water Industry Network HC : High-level Arab Water Treatment Cooperation Conference held recently in Cairo, the Arab League meeting was jointly organized by United Nations Development Programme, Arab water ministers from the relevant government officials and regional and international organizations concerned countries on the Arab integrated water resources management, water allocation , including the resulting socio-economic and Environment And so on, and the Arab countries to strengthen cooperation and coordinated action, the common response was to discuss the challenges.
At this meeting, United Nations Development Programme officially launched the latest regional cooperation in water resources development plan?? Arab national water management plan. The plan aims to improve integrated water resources management through the level of stress on water resources management in the socio-economic and environmental governance level key role in supporting the Arab countries more effectively manage and utilize the limited water resources.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said that Arab countries face enormous challenges on water resources, while this is also the Arab League has been the key priorities and solve problems. Recently, the League of Arab States established the new Minister of Water Resources Committee, which will help strengthen the resolve of Arab countries, through cooperation are crucial to the country's water resources, but also conducive to the Arab world, the issue of coordination in water resources, unified action. Moussa also noted that the UNDP released a new program to improve water governance by Arab countries to provide more technical support and policy level, the Arab League welcomed.
Learned that the early stages of planning, UNDP will cooperate with the Arab countries, designed for national geographic and climatic conditions for integrated water resources management plan, focused on solving water demand, lack of clean water and sanitation, Water Resources Management Monitor And related information and data collection, etc., the planning would provide expert advice and technical support to strengthen the technical and management personnel related skills training, while the smooth implementation of the plan to provide appropriate funding. The planning official stressed that regional cooperation to solve water problems is to complete the key planning objectives, the conference not only for the region in water resources management to provide a communication platform for exchange and sharing of experiences and, more importantly, through the meeting and the upcoming launch of the new comprehensive planning, integration of national resources to promote the Arab countries to form a new water treatment relationship, so that all countries benefit.
Arab population accounts for 5% of the world's population, but only with 1% of the water, its geographical position in the world's most water-stressed areas, with the ever-increasing population caused by water scarcity increasingly evident. United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, so no access to clean drinking water and reduce by half the population, while the United Nations Development Program released a report, if the current growth rate, by 2015, some Arab countries can not even achieve that goal , 2025, its per capita water resources will be below the water poverty line.
