A/RES/73/226
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 20 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/538/Add.1)]
73/226.
Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the
International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable
Development”, 2018–2028
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed
the period from 2018 to 2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for
Sustainable Development”,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1980/67 of 25 July
1980 on international years and anniversaries and 1989/84 of 24 May 1989 on
guidelines for international decades in economic and social fields and General
Assembly resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006
on the proclamation of international years,
Reaffirming the sustainable development goals and targets related to water
resources, including those contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 1 and determined to achieve the goal of ensuring the availability and
sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and other related goals and
targets,
Emphasizing that water is critical for sustainable development and the
eradication of poverty and hunger, that water, energy, food secur ity and nutrition are
linked and that water is indispensable for human development, health and well -being
and a vital element of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other
relevant goals in the social, environmental and economic fields,
Noting that the world is not on track to achieve water-related Sustainable
Development Goals and targets at the global level by 2030 at the current rate of
progress,
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