The document discusses four key challenges for water management: water security, food security, health security, and water governance. It calls for action to address these challenges, including creating a special task force on water management at the basin level and strengthening international cooperation and solidarity around ensuring good water governance, especially in areas with increasing water risks. Additionally, it recommends strengthening regional networks to become resource centers for knowledge sharing, innovations, and technologies related to sustainable basin management.

2. • Implement strategies to control and reduce water consumption
• Implement mangement mechanisms to reduce water losses
• Technical and institutional reformsFood security
• Adaptation to population growth and urban concentration
• New risks of epidemic diseases
• Impacts on people’s and ecosystems’ health
Health
security
• Sustainable management as a basis for future developments
• Ensure water availability for people and ecosystems
• Improved knowledge of water cycles and uses
Water
security
• Water scarcity as a major challenge of our time
• Natural AND human-made phenomena
• Developing human, institutional and technical capacities
Water
governance
4 key challenges

3. Call for action !
Creating a special task force on water management at
basin levels linked to the High Level Panel on Water
Integrate and strenghten water management at river
basin level
International cooperation commitment to adress
water security in high level policy decision making
Solidarity and ethical commitements to ensure good
water governance of the basins with increased risks
Create regional networks for sharing knowledge,
innovations and technologies

4. INBO’s perspectives
Strengthen regional networks to become real ressource
centers
Endeavor access to international resources to reduce
gaps in institutional/infrastructure developments
Build national, regional and international capacities
seeking the gradual implementation of new models
Promote modernization and efficient operation of
monitoring systems ; create Water Information Systems
Improve results indicators on sustainable basin
management, especially within WGI

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International Network of Basin Organizations
Réseau International des Organismes de Bassin
Red Internacional de los Organismos de Cuenca
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International Office for Water
Office International de l’eau
Officina Internacional del Agua
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