Putting Water on the Global Agenda .

Director Hydropolitics Academy 1 Zambia joins UN Water Convention to boost cooperation to address drought and water challenges as well as Botswana and Tanzania currently in ac- cession processes and Malawi having indicated its readiness to start the process, this creates the enabling conditions for others to join and maximize the relevance and usefulness of the UN Water Convention and its related. [...] The Water Convention has also facilitated the Honourable Engineer Collins Nzovu, MP, Minister First round of Technical & Plan- ning Negotiations of the Draft ‘Agreement on of Water Development and Sanitation of Zambia, the Establishment of the Luapula River and La- recognized that “Zambia’s accession to the United ke Mweru Authority” between the Democratic Nations Water Convention is a strong inst. [...] Under the agreement, the waters of the eastern rivers – the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi – have been Pakistan on Thursday asked India to comply allocated to India, while the three western rivers with the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), a 64-year- – the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab – go to Pakis- old water sharing agreement between the longti- tan.. [...] The Global Commis- its own right, but to avoid failing on climate sion on the Economics of Water (GCEW) calls change and safeguarding all the earth’s ecosys- for a new economics of water: tems, as well as on each and every one of the • One that recognises the hydrological cycle as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [...] re flows; that it is deeply interconnected with Decades of collective mismanagement and under- climate change and the loss of biodiversity valuation of water around the world have dama- with each rebounding on the other; and that it ged our freshwater and land ecosystems and al- impacts on virtually all the SDGs.