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.
Water efficiency in agriculture
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
The 2020 Data Drive: Joining Forces to Report on Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 UN-Water 4 May, 2020 The SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 concluded that the world is far from reaching SDG 6 on water and sanitation, which may jeopardize the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop … Read more
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 UN-Water 19 March, 2020 On March 1, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly, through it Resolution A/RES/73/284, proclaimed 2021 – 2030 the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to pr … Read more
Joint celebration of World Meteorological Day and World Water Day in Geneva UN-Water 9 March, 2020 In 2020, World Water Day (22 March) and World Meteorological Day (23 March) share the same theme: Climate Change and Water. This provides an important opportunity to twin the two international observan … Read more
Environmental flows used to ensure sustainable freshwater use and supply UN-Water 3 February, 2020 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 calculat … Read more
The 2020 Data Drive is part of the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6): ‘Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’. When countries adopted the SDGs, they committed to report data on SDG indicators to the UN to … Read more
