2030 WRG: CITY’S WATER RESOURCE IN CRITICAL CONDITION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Water resources of Ulaanbaatar city might deplete in seven years from now, besides, the pure water is severely polluted due to soil deterioration. It was said by experts of the 2030 Water Resources Group Monday at their meeting with Mr L.Erkhembayar, an advisor to the President of Mongolia on living environment and green development policy. The experts criticized the Mongolian side for that the water matters are ruled/managed by several bodies and emphasized an urgent need for an exclusive policy in this matter. This is preliminary results of a wide-range research into Mongolia’s water resources, conducted by the 2030 WRG under a financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) in accordance with our President's proposal to cooperate with the world water bodies. Present at the meeting were Mr Christophe Jacob, a chairman of the 2030 WRG for Asian affairs; Ms Jennifer Moller-Gulland, an expert from the PricewaterhouseCoopers in Berlin; and D.Dorjsuren, a board chairman of the Pure Water Institute (PWI). 2030 WRG is an innovative public-private platform for collaboration to mobilize stakeholders from the public and private sector, civil society, centers of academic expertise and financing institutions to engage in fact-based, analytical approaches and coalition building initiatives that help governments to catalyze sustainable water sector transformations in support of their economic growth plans. 2030 WRG engages with those governments who invite it to work on a comprehensive water sector reform strategy and then it provides a public-private approach to support them. 2030 WRG acts as an independent entity and offers no political, partisan or national nuance to its advice.