Stresses that the ultimate goal of the Mar del Plata Action Plan is to promote the level of preparedness needed to avoid a water crisis of global dimensions through the efficient and productive use and management of scarce water resources, which are vital to development, taking into consideration environmental concerns, including those related to the semi-arid and arid regions of developing countries; emphasizes that the 1990s will require an intensification of national efforts and international development cooperation in order to ensure the efficient and productive use and management of scarce water resources; reaffirms the urgent need for new strategies for integrated water resources development and management, including strategies in the areas of finance and technology, to manage the growing demand for water and to achieve long-term sustainability of the water resources sector; urges the appropriate organs, organizations and programmes of the UN system to assign a high degree of priority to activities, projects and programmes related to water resources undertaken at all levels by developing countries.

Adopted without vote, 32nd meeting

Adopted at the 32nd plenary meeting, 26 July 1991.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1991, Geneva, 3-26 July 1991. - E/1991/INF/10. - 30 Aug. 1991. - p. 69-70. - Issued in ESCOR, 1991, Suppl. no. 1 and 1a.