Future Activities and Needs

The time has come to extend and enhance the project portfolio to include other avenues designed to foster sustainable development. Some options that are possible include: investing in the treatment of wastewater, rehabilitation of municipal water supply systems, desalination plants, water transport by sea, improving the quality of water and its conservation, working to prevent pollution, and implementing public awareness and public health campaigns.

In the dawn of the new Millennium, all nations are invited to take part in this mutual quest. Our experience shows that international support, as demonstrated in the Working Group on Water Resources, leads to vitality and commitment to the process. This enables the vision to become a reality, by initiating and realizing both local and regional water projects. The time has come to bring into the process other regional parties and donors from both within the Middle East and North Africa region and without, and from both the public and private sectors. Together, we will discover new synergies and new ways to resolve shared problems. Together, we can usher in an era of peace, prosperity, and global collaboration.

Second World Water Forum 17-22 March 2000 The Hague

Table of Contents

Introduction

Availability

Management

Supply

Regional

Future