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HTML Document Water priority indicators for MSSD follow-up

Released 06/04/2006
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Initial Water SDI among 130 MCSD SDI (Sustainable Development Indicators):
- Access to safe drinking water
- Access to sanitation
- Agriculture water demand per irrigated area
- Water use efficiency for irrigation
- Equipped area in irrigation modern systems
- Exploitation index of renewable resources
- Non-sustainable water production index
- Share of samples water analysis not conform to quality standards
- Water quality global index
- Share of collected and treated wastewater by the public sewerage system
- Existence of economic tools to recover the water cost in various sectors
- Drinking water use efficiency
- Share of industrial wastewater treated on site
- Dams silting up rate
- Wetland area
- Ecosystems Water Demand

 

Improving integrated water resource and demand management: Water SDI agreed indicators

 

N. 1 - Water efficiency index (total and per sector with reference objectives)
- Stabilize water demand (decrease in the North and controlled increases in the South and East). Reduce losses and misuses by setting up efficiency objectives for each sector of use.
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Decouple water demand and GDP growth and significantly increase the economic agriculture added value per cubic metre of water used.

 

N. 2 - Water intensity index ratio compared to GDP and research of evaluation of Water intensity irrigated agriculture production added value compared with water demand for irrigation
- Stabilize water demand (decrease in the North and controlled increases in the South and East). Reduce losses and misuses by setting up efficiency objectives for each sector of use.
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Decouple water demand and GDP growth and significantly increase the economic agriculture added value per cubic metre of water used.

 

N. 3 - Exploitation index of renewable water resources
- Preserve water resources.

 

N. 4 Proportion of the population with access to safe drinking-water (total, urban, rural) with reference to MDGs
- Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for access to safe drinking-water and sanitation.

 

N. 5 Proportion of the population with access to sanitation (total, urban, rural) with reference to MDGs
- Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for access to safe drinking-water and sanitation.