Informe de ONU-Agua sobre las políticas en materia de calidad de agua

En el informe de ONU -AGUA podemos encontrar los retos y las tendencias, las factores determinantes y los impactos relacionados con la calidad del agua. Al mismo tiempo se exponen cuatro estrategias para aplicar soluciones políticas y recomendaciones concretas para alcanzar estas soluciones.

World Water Week 2011

Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanising World

• Call for Workshop Abstracts
• Call for Seminar and Side Event Proposals

The world is undergoing rapid urbanisation: people, ideas and commodities are intensively mobilising from peripheries to economic centres, where architectural wonders towers sky lines while slums continue to grow in their shadows. By 2050, more people will live in cities than the number of people living in the entire world today.

Overarching Conclusions Responding to Global Changes: The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement

A record number of participants at the 20th anniversary, 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm were presented with a hard task at the opening session: they were expected to tackle the manifold aspects of the global water quality challenge and to draw practical future solutions – all in one eventful week.

 The European Environment

The continuing presence of a range of pollutants in a number of Europe's freshwaters threatens aquatic ecosystems and raises concerns for public health. Current reporting under the EU Water Framework Directive shows that a substantial proportion of Europe's freshwaters are at risk of not achieving the aim of 'good status' by 2015. Driven by the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD), improvements in the collection and treatment of wastewater in some regions of Europe have led to a reduction in the discharge of some pollutants to fresh and coastal waters.

TheManitoba Challenge:  Linking Water and Land Management for Climate Adaptation

Manitoba’s water resources—notably including Lake Winnipeg—are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.Ecological watershed management is a major opportunity to address climate change vulnerabilities and challenges related to Lake Winnipeg nutrient management and can be pursued as arural innovation agenda. Climate change adaptation through integrated watershed management and planning (IWMP) should therefore be a major provincial policy priority.