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Water quality and its interlinkages with the Sustainable Development Goals
Interlinkages among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lead to important trade-offs and synergies among the goals and their underlying targets. The aim of this paper is to review the role of water quality as an agent of interlinkages among the SDGs. It was found that there are a small number of explicit interconnections, but many more inferred interlinkages between water quality and various targets. A review of case studies showed that interlinkages operate from the municipal to near global scales, that their importance is likely to increase in developing countries, and that new SDG indicators are needed to monitor them. The analysis identifies many different SDG target areas where a combined effort between the water quality community and other sectors would bring mutual benefits in achieving the water quality and other targets.
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Current Opinion in Environmental SustainabilityISSN
1877-3435Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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36Page range
126-140Department affiliated with
- Geography Publications
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- Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications
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2019-01-14First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-12-12First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-01-14Usage metrics
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