Under Italy’s 2024 G7 Presidency, we agreed to the establishment of the G7 Water Coalition, which aims to identify common goals and strategies, to catalyze shared ambitions and priorities to tackle the global water crisis, and to mainstream water and its cross-sectoral relevance in an impactful and coherent way into existing fora and processes, including by raising the political focus on water at the global level, and complementing other global initiatives.