Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

Clean Water & Sanitation


Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in and there is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, millions of people including children die every year from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

Water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. At the current time, more than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. Drought in specific afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition. Fortunately, there has been great progress made in the past decade regarding drinking sources and sanitation, whereby over 90% of the world’s population now has access to improved sources of drinking water.

To improve sanitation and access to drinking water, there needs to be increased investment in management of freshwater ecosystems and sanitation facilities on a local level in several developing countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Lutheran World Relief

LWR 1945 Baltimore MD USA G

LUX EUROPA

Berlin Germany D

Lux Pacifica - Association of Lighting Societies

Lux Pacifica Tokyo Japan C

Maat for Peace, Development, and Human Rights

2005 Cairo Egypt G

Maghreb-Mashreq Alliance for Water

1993 Casablanca Morocco D

Maison du Peuple d'Europe

MPEVH 2014 Brussels Belgium G

Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre

MEMAC 1982 Manama Bahrain E g

MED POL - Programme for the Assessment and Control of Marine Pollution in the Mediterranean

MED POL 1975 Athens Greece E g

MEDAIR

1988 Ecublens Switzerland G

MEDELEC

1992 Paris La Défense France F y

Medical Ambassadors International

1980 Salida CA USA G

Mediterranean Action Plan

MAP 1975 Athens Greece F g

Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari

Bari MAI 1962 Valenzano Italy E j

Mediterranean and Black Seas Hydrographic Commission

MBSHC 1978 Monte Carlo Monaco K g

Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development

MIO-ECSDE 1990 Athens Greece F y

Mediterranean Network of Basin Organisations

MENBO 2002 Valencia Spain E

Mediterranean Network of Water Training Centers

AquaForMed 2012 Paris France F

Mediterranean Oil Industry Group

MOIG 1992 Tunis Tunisia F t

Mediterranean Trust Fund

MTF 1979 Athens Greece E fg

Mediterranean Water Charter

1992 T g

Megacities Alliance for Water and Climate

MAWAC Paris France C

Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Conservation Measures for the Aquatic Warbler

2003 Bonn Germany T g

Mercy Airlift International

1968 Los Angeles CA USA G

Mercy Without Limits

MWL 2012 Overland Park KS USA G

Mercy-USA for Aid and Development

MUSA 1986 Plymouth MI USA G

Meso-American-Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission

MACHC 1994 Monte Carlo Monaco K g

Middle East Desalination Research Centre

MEDRC 1996 Muscat Oman E

Middle East Lighting Association

MELA 2012 Valletta Malta D

Millennium Water Alliance

MWA 2003 Washington DC USA G y

Mission d'aide au développement des économies rurales afghanes

MADERA 1988 Paris France E

Mission East

1991 Hellerup Denmark G

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives

MBRGI 2015 G

Mothers Legacy Project

Portland OR USA G

Mountain Research Initiative

MRI 2001 Bern Switzerland F

Movendi International

1851 Stockholm Sweden C

Mundus maris

2010 Brussels Belgium F

Municipal Waste Europe

MWE 2008 Brussels Belgium D

Muslim Aid

1985 London UK G

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association International Foundation

NRECA International Foundation 1960 Arlington VA USA N

Natural Mineral Waters Europe

NMWE Brussels Belgium D

NETLIPSE

Baarn Netherlands F

Network for Business Sustainability

NBS 2005 London ON Canada F

Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management

CAP-Net Pretoria South Africa E y

Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe

NICOLE 1995 Rotterdam Netherlands F

Network for Water and Sanitation International

NETWAS International 1986 Nairobi Kenya F

Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe

NALAS 2001 Skopje North Macedonia E y

Network of Reference Laboratories for Monitoring of Emerging Environmental Pollutants

NORMAN Network 2005 Verneuil-en-Halatte France F y

Network of the Insular Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the European Union

INSULEUR 1999 Chios Greece F t

New Development Bank

NDB 2014 Shanghai China E g

New Life International

1998 Underwood IN USA G

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