8. 在开展了整整 10 年与水有关的活动和行动之后，“十年”(如上所述)在 2015年年底结束。按照经济及社会理事会 1980 年 7 月 25 日第 1980/67 号决议，并根据大会第 69/215 号决议的要求，请秘书长向 2016 年大会第七十一届会议报告“十年”评价情况。评价是根据专门适用于“十年”的主题的报告安排进行的，目的是为“十年”后续进程提供信息和协助，并就是否考虑今后是否可能宣布“十年”的问题提供指导。
8. After 10 full years of activities and actions promoting water, the Decade (as already indicated) came to a close at the end of 2015. In accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980, and pursuant to the request of the General Assembly in its resolution 69/215, the Secretary-General was requested to report to the Assembly at its seventy-first session, in 2016, on the evaluation of the Decade. The evaluation that follows. which was conducted based on reporting arrangements designed especially for application to the subject of the Decade, aims at informing and facilitating the follow-up process to the Decade and providing guidance with respect to consideration of the proclamation of a possible future decade.