47. 由于千年发展目标在“十年”开始前的几年内才启动，当时不可能预测到联合国系统是否会在 2015 年商定范围超越饮用水和卫生设施、与水有关的一套新目标。现在可持续发展目标已经制定，并为水问题建立了更全面的发展议程，下一步目标是宏伟的，但也恰如其分，因为可持续发展目标和议程都考虑到了水问题涉及生计和生态系统的诸多方面。
47. As the Millennium Development Goals had been launched only a few years before the commencement of the Decade, it was impossible to predict at that point whether the United Nations system would agree upon a new set of water-related goals in 2015, which would extend beyond drinking water and sanit ation. With the Sustainable Development Goals now in place, along with a much more comprehensive development agenda for water, the way forward is appropriately ambitious, as the Goals and the agenda take into consideration the many facets of water associated with livelihoods and ecosystems.