World Water Day UNESCO

UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University organized an international round table on the topic: SDG 6 “Environmental regulation and control in the field of water supply and sanitation”, dedicated to the World Water Resources Day. The aim of the event is to discuss issues of water supply, assessment of the water quality and sanitation.

World Water Day has been celebrated annually on March 22 since 1993. It was created to attract public attention to the state of water bodies, rational water consumption and safe water supply and the implementation of the 6th Sustainable Development Goal until 2030. In 2023, this date was dedicated to the theme of solving the crisis of water supply and sanitation and accelerating changes for the timely achievement of the 6th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6).

The event was attended by following specialists: the Department of Ecology and Environment of Almaty, the basin inspectorate for the regulation of the use and protection of water resources in the water industry of Kazakhstan – Balkhash-Alakol, RSE “Kazhydromet, as well as a professor of the Faculty of Engineering of Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey).

At the international round table, foreign and Kazakhstani specialists of the water industry, participants of the speaker familiarized with the current government measures, scientific works on environmental regulation and control in the field of water supply and sanitation, shared their experience with students and teachers and about the activities carried out.

Organizers: 1st year undergraduates of the specialties “Ecology”, “Geoecology and environmental management” (Kaz.group). Teachers of the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development: L. Kurbanova, B. Tussupova, K. Khamitova, E. Doszhanov