These are already among the region's most adversely affected by water and sanitation problems.

Zuma said the world has the potential to create a new and more positive economic and social developmental pathway through, among others, water infrastructure investments, valuing water, catalyzing change, building partnerships and international cooperation, as well as creating better human settlements and data.

"We have the United Nations 2030 Agenda to point the way. Here in Africa we have an even longer term and complementary sustainable development strategy in the form of the African Union's 2063 Agenda," Zuma said.

The three-day summit, under the theme "Water and Sanitation is a Human Right", will later adopt the Political Declaration on Water and Sanitation.

Every year, the world observes World Water Day on March 22, a day officially designated by the UN in 1993 to highlight issues relating to water.

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