Transitioning to Sustainable Development Goals for Water

[...]the nations agreed that poverty eradication, changing unsustainable and promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production, and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social development were not only the overarching objectives but also the essential requirem...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2019-03
Main Authors: Srinivasan, Veena, Joy, K J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associations
Consumption
Contamination
Cost estimates
Drinking water
Ecosystems
Environmental economics
Environmental management
Groundwater
Infrastructure (Economics)
Irrigation
Sanitation
Society
Sustainable development
Water
Water shortages
Water supply
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Summary:[...]the nations agreed that poverty eradication, changing unsustainable and promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production, and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social development were not only the overarching objectives but also the essential requirements for sustainable development (United Nations 2015). The MDGs were being met at the expense of the environment or other sectors. Since the MDGs were being followed in silos, some of the trade-offs, especially in the form of negative externalities on other MDGs (interventions to address one MDG would exacerbate progress on another), did not become apparent. An even bigger concern is that many of the villages in the command area of the project do not have access to good quality drinking water and are not provided water from the Surya project even as water is reallocated to urban centres prioritising the drinking water policy. [...]the conflict is not only one of agriculture versus urban drinking water, but also one of rural drinking water versus the urban drinking water.3 If SDG 6 is narrowly interpreted to include only drinking water and sanitation, unchecked infrastructure development to meet water and sanitation targets may have an impact upon vulnerable communities and natural ecosystems. [...]many of the stakeholders engaged in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecosystem flows and water conflicts are largely uninvolved with the SDG process; most of the organisations involved in SDG 6 implementation are still from the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector, a carryover from the implementation of MDGs.
ISSN:0012-9976