Looking Ahead

Vision 2030 and Water

The Saudi Vision 2030 encompasses a broad, progressive view on moving towards a more modern Saudi Arabia that facilitates a vibrant society, thriving economy, and an ambitious nation. The work of the CWMC can support many of these vision pillars as indicated below:

The Saudi Vision 2030 sets out an ambitious yardstick for the country that requires dramatically new paradigms for the way many aspects of the society, economy, and environment are managed. A vision of environmental sustainability includes promoting optimal user of water resources by reducing consumption and increased utilization of treated and renewable water. This includes new paradigms for leveraging new technology in the digital economy, developing telecommunications and information technology infrastructure, especially high-speed broadband. The Vision 2030 also emphasizes the need for effective e-government, with emphasis on improving geographic information online services, cloud applications, as well as data sharing platforms, and indicates that decisions should be based on detailed analytics. This should help further modernize water governance, including building on new advances in data, analytics, knowledge, and learning to support water-related decisions.

SDGs

In 2018 the KSA presented a voluntary national review to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, a comprehensive review covering progress made at achieving the SDGs, alignment with Vision 2030, and the actions taken by national entities including the government sector, the private sector, and non-government organizations to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its highlighted progress made in all 17 areas, including concrete plans in place or that were being planned to further the Kingdom’s position in each of the areas

Some of the key national programs and initiatives aiming at supporting water and sanitation projects in KSA as of 2018: