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New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes. UNIFEED

Peruvian Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation called world leaders to “get out comfort zone, roll up our sleeves, put on our boots and lead the political, social, cultural and economic transformation that we need to face enormous challenges that our peoples demand in particular with the drinking water and sanitation agenda.” UNIFEED

Briefing reporters on the closing of the UN 2023 Water Conference, Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, said, “We've been working very hard on getting this conference right. After the conference, the world has to continue working hard to get water right.” UNIFEED

Dr. Osama El-Lissy of the Food and Agriculture (FAO) said “plant pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops,” including 80 percent of the global banana production, which “is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium.” UNTV CH

“In Kenya, I walked beside women and girls as they risked their lives each day to fetch water. And closer to here, just last week, I ran through California San Joaquin Valley, listening to farmers explained the threat to their crops, livelihoods and communities of what is now a 23-year drought,” ultramarathon runner said at the 2023 Water Conference’s Interactive Dialogue. UNIFEED

Eight brutal years of conflict have devastated the lives of millions of children in Yemen and left 11 million children in need of one or more forms of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF said today, warning that, without urgent action, millions could face greater risks of being malnourished. UNICEF

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said that progress on transboundary water cooperation “is badly off track.” UNIFEED

Briefing on the outcomes of the 2023 Global Water Security Assessment, the Director of United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health, Kaveh Madani said, “unless we make meaningful progress on SDG 6, we cannot deliver and fulfil the goals that we have by 2030.” UNIFEED

Countries need to translate the global plan to national targets, said David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. UNIFEED

On the occasion on World TB Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is announcing the expanded scope of the WHO Director-General’s (DG) Flagship Initiative on tuberculosis over the period from 2023 to 2027 to support fast-tracking progress towards ending TB and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. WHO