Judicious Water Consumption Vital for Sustainable Development

Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian stressed the need to focus on adopting pragmatic approaches for judicious water consumption so as to achieve sustainable development. "Water [shortage], inflicted on many countries in the past few years, has become a major challenge to sustainable development … Governments need to pay closer attention to solve the problem," Ardakanian was also quoted as saying by ILNA on Thursday.
He was speaking at a two-day international conference titled “International Decade for Action—Water for Sustainable Development 2018-28” held in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe from June 21-22.
The conference was organized by Tajikistan's government in cooperation with the United Nations and affiliates, particularly the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs.