Presidency:Melbourne

Vice-presidency:Mexico (State of)

The accelerated rise of the urban population, together with the limitation of water resources, has forced the world?s cities to step up to bat a challenge of great magnitude, i.e., to guarantee the supply of drinking water and treatment of wastewater.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals made halving the number of people without access to a supply of drinking water and domestic sewerage a challenge for 2015.

The commission has set the following objectives:

• Generate sustainable and innovative projects.
• Shore up institutional capabilities through technical-assistance programs, courses, workshops and seminars.
• Promote knowledge exchange between cities and regions.
• Link the commission's activities with those of other public and private organizations.
• Establish a network of technical, legal and political information
• Encourage international funding for solidarity through a platform
  of cooperation with governmental and international organizations.
• Publicize the commission's activities.

The goal is to generate a harmonious balance of water resources in economic, social and environmental aspects at the local and regional levels that responds to long-term strategic planning.