Welcome to the NGOs and Freshwater home page!
This site is for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other organisations / individuals with an interest in freshwater and sustainable development. It provides links and information on:
The outcomes of UN Commission for Sustainable Development eighth session;
Up-dates on the "International Conference on Freshwater" (Dublin + 10) in Bonn, December 2001,
The preparations for Earth Summit 2002.
The outcomes of the NGO sessions at Second World Water Forum have been published as a report "Perspectives on Freshwater: Issues and recommendations of NGOs" (to obtain a hard copy from UNED Forum contact: dmorely@earthsummit2002.org
The
report on the Eighth
Informal Meeting of Environment Ministers the
"Bergen dialogues" which included discussion on "Access to
water for basic needs"
Your Turn!
The UN CSD NGO freshwater caucus is in a good position to push for more open
and accountable processes to ensure
that NGOs can be more effectively involved. We invite interested NGOs to join the
UN CSD NGO freshwater caucus to sign up to the e-group, as well as input ideas
on any activities you are involved in or would like to see further developed. See
the e-group sign up sheet or for further details contact info@earthsummit2002.org.
updated: June 2001