For the 3rd World Water Forum, IUCN encourages participants to consider the following outputs:
· Clear commitments and investments of governments and civil society to making water management sustainable
· Development of regional and national frameworks for water management, which explicitly include the revision of institutional and legal frameworks and allow the participation of civil society
· Implementation of environmental flows in river basins, where a specific amount of water is allocated to ensure ecosystem functions, such as flood prevention, maintenance of fish stocks, or water purification
· Protection of key ecosystems, such as upper watershed forests, wetlands and coastal zones, that are critical to maintain water quality and quantity
· Implementation of action plans in basins to prevent and treat pollution from agriculture, industry and cities
· Clear regulatory frameworks for the contribution of markets and the private sector to sustainable water management
· Encouragement of basin-wide partnerships for planning, management and operation between governments, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and civil society
· Setting up national adaptation coalitions to adjust water management to climate change
· Recognition of the guidance of the World Commission on Dams, to make the planning, construction and operation of dams socially and environmentally acceptable
· Clear commitments and investments of governments and civil society to making water management sustainable
· Development of regional and national frameworks for water management, which explicitly include the revision of institutional and legal frameworks and allow the participation of civil society
· Implementation of environmental flows in river basins, where a specific amount of water is allocated to ensure ecosystem functions, such as flood prevention, maintenance of fish stocks, or water purification
· Protection of key ecosystems, such as upper watershed forests, wetlands and coastal zones, that are critical to maintain water quality and quantity
· Implementation of action plans in basins to prevent and treat pollution from agriculture, industry and cities
· Clear regulatory frameworks for the contribution of markets and the private sector to sustainable water management
· Encouragement of basin-wide partnerships for planning, management and operation between governments, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and civil society
· Setting up national adaptation coalitions to adjust water management to climate change
· Recognition of the guidance of the World Commission on Dams, to make the planning, construction and operation of dams socially and environmentally acceptable