Speaker: Philipp Saile, Head of GEMS/Water Data Centre, International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (UNESCO) , Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany

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With the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Member States have agreed on ambitious water-related targets including improving water quality by 2030. Since the late 1970s, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other UN agencies have been working with countries to improve our knowledge about the status and trends in freshwater quality by building monitoring, reporting and assessment capacities. The presentation will give an overview of the global monitoring and reporting of SDG Indicator 6.3.2 on ambient water quality as part of the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6, the work of UNEP's Global Environment Monitoring System on Freshwater (GEMS/Water) in collecting freshwater quality monitoring data as well as the first World Water Quality Assessment conducted by the World Water Quality Alliance including a summary of recent findings and challenges faced.

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