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Sustainable Development Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation is crucial for the implementation of many other SDGs such as food security, health, education, land or energy. Across the 2030 Agenda, many goals depend on the availability of and access to water, but these interlinkages also create trade-offs and conflict potential. The Covid-19 pandemic, for instance, has shed light on existing harsh inequalities in access to safe water and resulting health risks - 2.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water and more than 4.5 billion have no safe sanitation which considerably amplifies the risk of spreading the virus. In order to identify and address the needs of different water uses and users, researchers and policymakers need to adopt holistic approaches, but still develop pragmatic solutions to concrete governance challenges. 

The newly created Bonn Water Network addresses these questions in a lecture and a panel discussion followed by an open debate with the public. The network consists of seven renowned institutions with longstanding experience on water and related issues: the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); Bonn University with its Institute of Geography (GIUB) holding the UNESCO Chair in Human Water Systems, and the Center for Development Research (ZEF); the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and two UN institutions, the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Contact to the Bonn Water Network:

Spokesperson: Annabelle Houdret (GDI-DIE):

Co-spokesperson: Luna Bharati (IWMI/ ZEF):