AquaFed – The International Federation of Private Water Operators
AquaFed, the International Federation of Private Water Operators, brings together more than 400 private water and wastewater services providers from all over the world. Created in 2005, AquaFed is one of the few business federations recognized in the UN ECOSOC system as an NGO in special consultative status.
For many years AquaFed has been a “Friend” of UNWATER. AquaFed aims to bring practitioners’ views and experiences to international debates. Collectively, our members serve up to 1 billion people on a daily basis and transform human rights into a reality through a wide variety of contractual models.
Joint work with NGOs such as WWFP and Borda in the framework of the World Water Forums
World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The theme of World Water Day 2021 is va … Read more
On 16 October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, is organizing the virtual side-event ‘Private actors, privatization and the human rights to water and sanitation’. Since 2018 the Special Rapporteur has organized a series of Human Rights Youth Challe … Read more
Commemoration of World Water Day and launch of UN World Water Development Report UN-Water 18 March, 2019 Commemorating World Water Day, a pivot event will be hosted on 19 March 2019 at the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office at Geneva. During the event, the United Nations World Wat … Read more
World Water Day 2019 – Leaving no one behind UN-Water 17 January, 2019 World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. This year’s theme, ‘Leaving no one behind’, adapts the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that as … Read more
