41. “十年”取得的成功在很大程度上归因于在这十年间一直能按时实现重大目标，从在 2007 年为支持“十年”建立两个有时限的联合国水机制方案，庆祝 2008国际环境卫生年，到大会在 2010 年承认享有安全和清洁饮用水和卫生设施的人权；这些成绩只用了“十年”一半的时间就得以实现。在“十年”下半期，首先在 2011 年通过了大会决议“可持续的环境卫生：2015 年前的五年奋斗”，然后在联合国可持续发展大会题为“我们希望的未来”的成果文件中强调了水问题，庆祝了国际水合作年(2013)，并在“十年”即将结束之前，将水列为一项单独的可持续发展目标。19
41. The successes of the Decade can be attributed in great measure to its ability to have consistently reached milestones over the course of those 10 years, ranging from the establishment of two time-bound UN-Water programmes in support of the Decade in 2007 and the International Year of Sanitation (2008) to the recognition of the human right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation by the General Assembly in 2010: these accomplishments required only half the Decade to materialize. The second half began with the adoption of a General Assembly resolution on “Sustainable sanitation: the five-year drive to 2015” in 2011, followed by the highlighting of water in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 19 the International Year of Water Cooperation (2013) and the inclusion of a stand-alone Sustainable Development Goal on water just before the close of the Decade.