5. 推动在可持续发展委员会第六届会议期间做出的与淡水有关的决定(见E/1998/29)。在 2000 年联合国环境与发展会议举行八年后，《联合国千年宣言》规定了联合国系统发展议程，其中制定了千年发展目标中的一项具体目标，目的是在 2015 年前将无法持续获得安全饮用水的人口减少一半。4 两年后，即 2002年，在南非约翰内斯堡举行的可持续发展问题世界首脑会议上，将无法持续获得安全饮用水的人口减少一半这一目标被列入《约翰内斯堡执行计划》所载目标(第8 段)。同时，会议还商定，尽管这一目标没有成为千年发展目标的一部分，但各国应在 2005 年前制定水资源综合管理计划和用水效率计划。一般而言，这些是当时最完善的关于水的国际商定目标。
5. In 2000, furthering decisions related to freshwater which were taken during the sixth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (see E/1998/29) and eight years after the holding of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the United Nations Millennium Declaration4 set out the development agenda for the United Nations system, in which a target was formulated among the Millennium Development Goals aimed at reducing by half the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. Two years later, in 2002, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the target to reduce by half the number of people without sustainable access to sanitation was added to the Goals in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (para. 8). At the same time, it was also agreed — although this goal did not become part of the Millennium Development Goals — that countries should develop integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans by 2005. Generally speaking, these were the most well-established internationally agreed goals specific to water at that time.