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Annual UN-Water Meeting hosted in Perugia

During the first week of February this year, the 10th Annual Meeting of UN-Water took place at the new premises of the WWAP Secretariat, at the Villa La Colombella in Perugia, Italy. UN-Water is the mechanism which works to strengthen co-ordination and coherence among all UN bodies dealing with water-related issues, from health to farming, environment to energy, food to climate, and sanitation to disasters.

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WWAP Expert group on Indicators, Monitoring and Databases (EG-IMD) holds meeting in Perugia

On January 29-30, the EG-IMD held a meeting of “data and indicator users” in which a dozen representatives of different user groups, including private sector, policy development and major water user sectors, discussed the types of global indicators they would like to see available in terms of water resources. The discussions focused on three categories (or “domains”) of indicators: the state of the resource, water uses, and the interface between the resource and its use, governance and performance.

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