The Zaragoza Conference will focus on the tools for implementation stated in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June 2012, entitled "The future we want", which includes finance, technology and capacity building, adding the institutional and legal dimensions.

Member States have considered the importance of technology, financing, capacity development, as well as institutional issues to progress towards the implementation of the post-2015 agenda.

The overall aims of the Zaragoza Conference are:

• To identify the specific pending issues that need to be tackled in relation to the main implementation challenges related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); Water Resources Management; Water Quality; and Risks;
• To analyze the main opportunities and challenges for the different means of implementation to advance the post-2015 agenda;
• To showcase how the different means of implementation can promote the necessary transformative change. This will be illustrated through specific practical examples on the use of the tools to facilitate changes that have been successful;
• To make proposals on the role of different actors and how they can contribute, specifically Business, Governments (including local governments), civil society, academia, and media;
• To draw lessons on differentiated responsibilities, appropriateness and transferability of different tools and approaches in different contexts but also on issues of scaling up and transitioning.
• To analyze how lessons learned by the UN during the International Decade for Action can be used in the post-2015 agenda, specifically in relation to water cooperation, and women engagement.

The Conference will do so by:

• Analyzing and evaluating the existing use of tools and the main challenges;
• Providing a platform for exchange of experiences and dialogue: inter-disciplinary, inter-scale, and inter-generational between the academia, international organizations, NGOs, public and private sectors;
• Drawing conclusions on lessons from existing experience and the way forward for the implementation of the post-2015 agenda.

In terms of sustainability, renewable energy technologies are very important because they are based on renewable sources instead of finite sources such as fossil fuels.

The expected outcomes from the Conference are:

• A toolkit for implementation;
• Learning and knowledge exchange among Conference participants through interdisciplinary discussions;
• A series of documented case studies, video interviews, information briefs and other materials for World Water Day 2015;
• A Conference report, including lessons from the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’.