United Nations 2023 Water Conference

The UN 2023 Water Conference is the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the implementation of the UN Decade for Action Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018 – 2028. The UN 2023 Water Conference is scheduled to take place at UN Headquarters in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023. It is the first UN Conference that focuses on water since 1977 and is a pivotal moment to accelerate water action to achieve not only Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and sanitation, but also frameworks such as the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework and Our Common Agenda. Co-hosted by the Governments of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs serving as the Conference Secretariat, with the support of UN-Water, the UN 2023 Water Conference aims to bring together Member States, the UN System, civil society and other stakeholders to achieve the sorely needed progress on water-related goals and targets.