The United Nations’ first meeting on water in nearly half a century drew towards a close on Friday with hopes it would spur political momentum and fears that too little is being done to tackle chronic water stress globally. | Reuters
“Is that enough? No…. We have fragmented water governance across the world, fragmented finance and not enough science and data in place,” said Ovink, whose country co-hosted the conference. “This conference is the beginning of a rippling effect across the world.”
“Each voluntary commitment has a place where you talk about how much money is available, most of them left that blank,” Iceland said. Non-profit environmental reporting group CDP lamented the low turnout of 12 heads of state as well as the lack of a plan to hold another conference.
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