The resolution A/RES/58/217 proclaimed the period from 2005 to 2015 International Decade for Action "Water for Life". The Decade should be a greater focus on waterrelated issues at all levels and on the implementation of water-related programmes and projects, while striving to ensure the participation and involvement of women in water-related development efforts, and the furtherance of cooperation at all levels, in order to help to achieve internationally agreed water-related goals contained in Agenda 21,1 the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21,2 the United Nations Millennium Declaration5 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation,3 and, as appropriate, those identified during the twelfth and thirteenth sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development