The 13th Round Table on Sustainable Development

Water and Sanitation

9-10 March 2004

• Background Papers

-  Closing the Sanitation Gap – the Case for Better Public Funding of Sanitation and Hygiene

-    Integrated Water Resource Management and Water Efficiency Plans by 2005

• Outcome: New evidence of the development ‘dividend’ from improved sanitation in line with the related Millennium Development Goal was presented to Ministers and other stakeholders. Priorities in the areas of sanitation provision and water resource management were identified in preparation for UNCSD 12.

• Chairman’s Summary

• Ministerial Attendance: 11