2019 (EN)

Friday, March 22, 2019, at 4.30 pm, at the headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT, the International Conference "The World Water Day" was held on the occasion of the World Water Day.
On this occasion, the “World Water Development Report 2019” (WWDR) was presented as a preview, entitled “Leaving no onebehind”, which aims to inform policy makers on how to improve water resource management and access to water services and sanitation, in order to overcome poverty and tackle social and economic inequalities.
In the attached program and in the integral videos the interventions and the reports.
The World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 of each year to remind UN Member States to strengthen their commitment to carry out the recommendations established by the UN General Assembly and to promote concrete activities in their countries for the protection of the resource water.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo, on the occasion of its thirty-year anniversary, which has always been a supporter of the United Nations water programs, organized this Conference - in collaboration with UNESCO, the Order of Malta, the CISE (Italian Confederation for Economic Development) and the "Anna Lindh Italy Federation" - on the occasion of the World Water Day and as the first event among those planned in view of the WORLD PEACE FORUM 2019 organized in Naples by the same Foundation.
On this occasion, the president Michele Capasso presented the "Appeal for water".