UNGA President Philemon Yang opened the 84th plenary of the 79th UNGA session on 9 July 2025, inviting Member States to consider draft decision A/79/L.101.

Submitted by Senegal and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the document identified six themes for interactive dialogues:

• Water for people: the human rights to water and sanitation, including for those in vulnerable situations, for healthy societies and economies;
• Water for prosperity: valuing water, water-energy-food nexus, advancing integrated and sustainable water resource management, wastewater and water-use efficiency across sectors, and economic and social development;
• Water for planet: climate, biodiversity, desertification, environment, source to sea, resilience, and disaster risk reduction (DRR);
• Water for cooperation: transboundary and international water cooperation, including scientific cooperation and inclusive governance;
• Water in multilateral processes: SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and beyond, and global water initiatives; and
• Investments for water: financing, technology and innovation, and capacity building.

UN Member States then adopted the themes, and H.E. Mr. Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, Minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation of Senegal, announced that Senegal would host a high-level meeting in Dakar from 26–27 January 2026 as part of its initiative to support preparations for the Conference.

The UN 2026 Water Conference will be held in the UAE from 2-4 December 2026, co-hosted by Senegal and the UAE.

Find out more here.

https://www.unwater.org/news/unga-adopts-six-themes-un-2026-water-conference