The President of the World Water Council, Loïc Fauchon, and the Vice Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed, UN HQ, New York City, 24 June 2019

Senegal and the United-States: new stages in the World Water Council’s political marathon

“So that water does not remain a lower priority, let us mobilize everyone so that no one is left behind.” This is the meaning of the true marathon undertaken by Loïc Fauchon, President of the World Water Council and his team over the past three weeks. No less than 14 ministers were met face-to-face in Africa, particularly in Niamey, Ouagadougou and Dakar.

Two important meetings in Africa for the 9th World Water Forum Kick-off Meeting

Diamniadio (Greater Dakar), Senegal, 20 and 21 June – With nearly six hundred organizations and experts, the preparations for the 9th World Water Forum were launched. A Forum which in 2021 must bring Responses enabling change the everyday life of hundreds of millions of children and adults. These responses will bring them water and sanitation but at the same time, in line with the President’s new crusade, they will bring food, health care and medicine, and education. It is the principle of the “Five-Finger Alliance” to bring, through solidarity, each of these basic services that constitute human rights necessary to human dignity.

“In many regions of the world, access to water and sanitation is declining. We must talk about the responses that will enable change the everyday lives of millions of people throughout the world.”

(Loïc Fauchon, President of the World Water Council at the UN HQ)