Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO is the custodian agency for the SDG indicators 6.4.1 on water use efficiency, and 6.4.2 on level of water stress. As such, FAO collects and reports indicators’ data produced and/or verified by each country, and provide technical support and capacity development as required.
FAO is a partner of the UN-Water-coordinated GEMI project. It has been actively involved in GEMI since it joined the initiative, where it has provided technical expertise in relation with water use efficiency, water scarcity, and wastewater treatment and reuse, together with expertise on approaches to global water monitoring.
In order to better address these issues, FAO has developed AQUASTAT, a monitoring capacity which it has maintained for the past 25 years and which includes a global water database, country reports and associated tools for global analysis of water issues.
AQUASTAT database
Environmental flows used to ensure sustainable freshwater use and supply UN-Water Environmental flows or E-flows, describe the quantity, quality and timing of water flows needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems so they can continue to provide services to society. The E-flow calculators help scientis … Read more
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Symposium on nonconventional waters for achieving food security UN-Water Freshwater scarcity already affects every continent, and it is expected to intensify over time due to an increase in demand from all water users, a rise in population, a mismatch of water resources, and insufficient targeted in … Read more
Launch of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Data Portal UN-Water During the World Water Week in Stockholm the UN-Water SDG 6 Data Portal was launched in the session ‘Looking forward to Phase 2 of SDG 6 monitoring’ hosted earlier today. The SDG 6 Data Portal is one of the flagship products of UN-W … Read more
New World Bank-FAO paper on water management in fragile systems UN-Water Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been at the forefront in developing practices and institutions to manage scarce water resources in the context of a largely arid and highly variable climate. However, the scale … Read more
