Technology

Optimizing the monitoring of (i) the development and operation of water assets and (ii) the management of the public drinking water supply service (DWSS), implies detailed and dynamic control of the assets and a capacity to monitor and control the operating data of the assets.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer many opportunities to set up adapted, inclusive and participative tools.

Action Idea #3 has been divided into three projects: (1) Strengthening the enabling policy environment for safely managed sanitation; (2) Promote wide adoption of sanitation as a utility service and (3) Demonstration of emerging commercial to advance sanitation. Achieving sustainable sanitation requires combined efforts from multiple partners. Sessions under this action idea shall convene government stakeholders, regulators, private sector, and civil society actors.

The Human Right to Water is a critical component of the international rights framework, and is a necessary component of the advancement of human society and development. Coming on the heels of the 10th anniversary of the UN General Assembly's adoption of Resolution 64/292's explicit right to water and with the 20th anniversary of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' General Comment 15 recognizing the human right to water coming later this year, this panel asks: where are we now and where are we going?