Secretary-General’s Message on World Water Day
秘书长世界水日致辞
New York, 22 March 2017
2017年3月21日 纽约
Water holds the key to sustainable development. We need it for health, food security and economic progress. Yet, each year brings new pressures. One in three people already lives in a country with moderate to high water stress, and by 2030 nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 per cent. Competition is growing among farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country; upstream and downstream; and across borders. Climate change and the needs of populations growing in size and prosperity mean we must work together to protect and manage this fragile, finite resource.
水是可持续发展的关键所在。我们的健康、粮食安全和经济发展都需要水。然而，每年都面临新的压力。三分之一的人民已经生活在中度到高度缺水的国家，全球近一半的人口到2030年可能面临水资源匮乏，需求量将比供应量高出40%。农民和牧民、工业和农业、城镇和乡村、上游和下游以及各国之间对水资源的争夺日趋激烈。气候变化、不断扩大的人民需求以及富裕繁荣要求我们必须共同致力于保护和管理这一脆弱和有限的资源。
This is the International Year of Water Cooperation, and World Water Day 2017
is dedicated to highlighting the joint efforts necessary to ensuring a fair share for people and planet. The United Nations system, through UN-Water and its 30 UN members and 25 international partners, is fostering collaboration from the global level to the grassroots. For example, the UN Development Programme’s Shared Waters Partnership is supporting political agreement on shared waters, such as in the Nile Basin. UNESCO is supporting the equitable management of transboundary water resources to avoid conflict, while the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes will soon be available to all UN Member States. I urge countries outside the UNECE region to join the Convention and further develop it.
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