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Water Productivity and Sustainability in NENA Countries Newsletter, July 2021 - Issue #3

Summary of activities from July to December 2020

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Cairo, Egypt ;

Pages 13

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Newsletter

Series title Newsletters from the Decentralized Offices

Series number 3

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, already exposed to chronic shortage of water, will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, the NENA region is experiencing more frequent, intense extreme events (in particular droughts) as a consequence of climate change. The recently agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires evidently a ‘transformational’ change in managing strategic resources, such as water, land and energy. The countries of the region need to strategically plan their water resources management and allocation, review their water, food security and energy policies, formulate effective investment plans, modernize governance and institutions and account for transboundary surface and groundwater. Good practices need to be adopted to ensure alignment with the imperatives of (i) setting the sustainable limits of water consumption and (ii) making the best use of each single drop of water, including the use of non-conventional water sources. This newsletter is a recap for the activities that took place on a regional level for the period from July to December 2020, for this project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in the NENA countries".

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