Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 2014 Sept - Oct Vol. 9 No.5 | Page 28

The head of the International Energy
Agency (IEA), Ms. Maria van der Hoeven,
spoke of the need to grow biofuels
in areas that rely on rain rather than
irrigation, something that would also lessen
dependency on power to draw water.
“We must go from ideas to action, from
goals to implementation. If we assume there
will be a Sustainable Development Goal on
World Water Week: Water efficiency must be the
guiding star in fight to eradicate hunger and poverty water, we must now look at how it can be
integrated with other goals and at concrete
measures for implementation,” said Mr.
Stockholm (2014-09-05) – The 2014 World Water Week,
Torgny Holmgren.
focusing on energy and water, closed today with
To feed into the soon-to-start UN member state negotiations
participants jointly emphasising the importance of a
on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, SIWI