Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 2:50-4:20PM
Location: Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre, Bali Indonesia
Event Overview:
Freshwater is our most important natural resource; essential for human health, well-being, and socioeconomic development, and for protecting biodiversity and other life supporting ecosystem services upon which humanity depends.
Only about 1% of all the freshwater on the Earth's surface exists in liquid form, whereas lakes supply around 87% of the liquid surface freshwater. Lakes provide a significant source of ecosystem services, including the provision of water for human consumption, health, food, and renewable energy; regulate services for the food cycle, water purification, biodiversity, and climate; and enable the pursuit of recreational and traditional activities.
Despite their importance, many of the world's lakes are in crisis. The state of freshwater lakes’ volume has been reported to be declining by half, along with lakes’ water quality due to the enormous pressure from a combination of excessive water use, environmentally unfriendly use of the catchment/basin, and the climate crisis, which in turn is threatening human health, biodiversity and the environment, and causing water-related disasters such as flood, drought, and landslide.
At the policy level, some national freshwater policies are fragmented, with insufficient funding, slow implementation, and insufficient integration of environmental objectives into sectoral policies.
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