Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

Clean Water & Sanitation


Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is the most basic human need for health and well-being. Billions of people will lack access to these basic services in 2030 unless progress quadruples. Demand for water is rising owing to rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing water needs from agriculture, industry, and energy sectors.

The demand for water has outpaced population growth, and half the world’s population is already experiencing severe water scarcity at least one month a year. Water scarcity is projected to increase with the rise of global temperatures as a result of climate change.

Investments in infrastructure and sanitation facilities; protection and restoration of water- related ecosystems; and hygiene education are among the steps necessary to ensure universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030, and improving water-use efficiency is one key to reducing water stress.

There has been positive progress. Between 2015 and 2022, the proportion of the world’s population with access to safely managed drinking water increased from 69 per cent to 73 per cent.

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

ChildHope UK

1989 London UK G

ChildRights International Research Institute

1992 New York NY USA G j

China Europe Water Platform

CEWP 2012 F

Christian Aid Mission

1953 Charlottesville VA USA G

Christian Engineers in Development

CED 1985 South Brent UK G

Christian Relief Fund

CRF 1974 Amarillo TX USA G f

Christian World Service

CWS 1942 Christchurch New Zealand G

Church World Service

CWS 1946 Elkhart IN USA G

Circle of Blue

Traverse City MI USA G

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

1993 Johannesburg South Africa F y

Clean Air Initiative for Cities Around the World

CAI 1998 Washington DC USA F

Clean Air Institute

CAI 2006 Washington DC USA E j

Clean Energy Ministerial

CEM 2009 Paris France F cg

Clean Shipping Coalition

CSC Brussels Belgium C y

Clean Sky Joint Undertaking

Clean Sky JU 2008 Brussels Belgium E

Clean the World

2009 Orlando FL USA G

Clean Up the World

CUW 1993 Darlinghurst NSW Australia F

Climate and Clean Air Coalition

CCAC 2012 Paris France E y

Climate Investment Funds

CIF 2008 F f

CO2 Value Europe

CVE 2017 Brussels Belgium D

Coalition Clean Baltic

CCB 1990 Uppsala Sweden F y

Coalition Eau

Montreuil France G y

Coalition of Fragile Ecosystems

COFE 2017 J

COGEN Europe

1993 Brussels Belgium D yt

Collaborative Intergovernmental Scientific Research Institute

CISRI 2000 Novara Italy E gj

Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Low- and Middle-income Countries

CWG St Gallen Switzerland F

Comisión Trinacional para el Desarrollo de la Cuenca del Rio Pilcomayo

1995 Asunción Paraguay E g

Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli

CISP 1982 Rome Italy G

Comité d'aide médicale et de parrainage sans frontières

CAMPSF 1990 Montreuil France G

Comité européen de normalisation

CEN 1961 Brussels Belgium D y

Comité Interamericano de Sanidad Avicola

CISA 2004 Buenos Aires Argentina E

Comité Regional de Recursos Hidraulicos del Istmo Centroamericano

CRRH 1966 San José Costa Rica E g

Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage

CIE 1900 Vienna Austria C

Commission on Air Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN - Standards Committee

1990 Düsseldorf Germany G

Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution

Black Sea Commission Istanbul Türkiye E g

Commissione Cooperazione Internazionale per lo Sviluppo

CICOPS 1984 Pavia Italy G

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CERD 1969 Geneva Switzerland E g

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

COPUOS 1959 Vienna Austria E g

Committee on the Rights of the Child

Geneva Switzerland E g

Common Ground Research Networks

1984 Champaign IL USA F

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure

CLARIN 2012 Utrecht Netherlands E

Commonwealth Engineers' Council

CEC 1946 London UK C

Community and Family Services International

CFSI 1981 G

Community Partners International

CPI 2010 San Francisco CA USA G

Community World Service Asia

1954 Karachi Pakistan F

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Analysis of Organic Micro-pollutants in Water

1980 T g

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Physico-chemical Behaviour of Atmospheric Pollutants

1980 T g

Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a Concerted Action Project in the Field of Treatment and Use of Sewage Sludge

1979 T g

Complementary Protocol to the Agreement on Regional Cooperation in Combating Pollution of the Southeast Pacific by Hydrocarbons and other Harmful Substances

1983 Quito Ecuador T g

Complementary Protocol to the Agreement on Regional Cooperation in Combating Pollution of the Southeast Pacific by Oil and other Harmful Substances in Cases of Emergency

1983 T g

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