{"id":41051,"date":"2024-11-22T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=41051"},"modified":"2024-11-29T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:15:58","slug":"wfeo-participation-at-the-40th-un-water-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-participation-at-the-40th-un-water-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"WFEO participation at the 40th UN-Water meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UN_Water_banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UN_Water_banner.png 979w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UN_Water_banner-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UN_Water_banner-768x147.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 40th meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UN-Water<\/a> took place on 4-5 November at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>UN-Water Chair Alvaro Lario opened proceedings, and the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Envoy on Water, Mrs. Retno Marsudi, addressed around 130 representatives from UN-Water Members and Partners.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1037\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_1-1536x796.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><br \/>\nWFEO became a partner of UN-Water in August 2023. Since then, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-on-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">WFEO Water Committee<\/a> has appointed representatives to several UN-Water Expert Groups and Task Forces. WFEO was represented at the meeting by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-on-water-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ignacio Gonz\u00e1lez-Castelao<\/a>, the Chair of the Water Committee (-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iies.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Engineering Institute<\/a>&#8211; in person attendance) and by Adeyinka Sobowale (-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nse.org.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nigerian Society of Engineers<\/a>&#8211; attendance by videoconference).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_2-1536x979.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-at-the-40th-UN-Water-meeting_Ignacio_Gonzalez-Castelao-1536x1048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><br \/>\n<i>At right: Ignacio Gonz\u00e1lez-Castelao, the Chair of the Water Committee<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt the meeting, different initiatives of the UN-Water member organizations and the steps in the preparation of the UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwater.org\/news\/united-nations-water-conference-2026\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Water Conference<\/a> were presented. During the event, WFEO took the floor to present the Engineering Capacity Building for Africa Program initiative and the possibility to collaborate with other UN-Water initiatives covering the same purposes, such as the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwater.org\/our-work\/sdg-6-capacity-development-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">SDG 6 Capacity Development Initiative<\/a>\u2019 led by UNESCO. WFEO also expressed its interest in participating in the \u201cContributing Actions\u201d on non-conventional water resources framed within the Priority Collaborative Actions of the UN-Water Collaborative Implementation Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The 41st UN-Water Meeting will be from 2-3 April 2025, in Rome, Italy.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<i>Report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-on-water-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ignacio Gonz\u00e1lez-Castelao<\/a>, Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-on-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">WFEO Committee on Water<\/a><\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN-Water website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/committee-on-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WFEO Water Committee website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe 40th meeting of UN-Water took place on 4-5 November at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.<br \/>\nUN-Water Chair Alvaro Lario opened proceedings, and the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Envoy on Water, Mrs. Retno Marsudi, addressed around 130 representatives from UN-Water Members and Partners.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WFEO became a partner of UN-Water in August 2023. Since then, the WFEO Water Committee has appointed representatives to several UN-Water Expert Groups and Task Forces. WFEO was represented at the meeting by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-report"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WFEO participation at the 40th UN-Water meeting - WFEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-participation-at-the-40th-un-water-meeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WFEO participation at the 40th UN-Water meeting - WFEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 40th meeting of UN-Water took place on 4-5 November at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 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