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Mar 22, 2023 · Globally, 2 billion people (26% of the population) do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion (46%) lack access to safely managed sanitation, according to the report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water and released today at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York.
Water Crisis . While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %.
Mar 21, 2018 · From Not Enough to Too Much, the World’s Water Crisis Explained. Many more cities than Cape Town face an uncertain future over water. But there are emerging solutions.
Mar 22, 2023 · 22 March 2023 SDGs. The world’s precious water resources are “in deep trouble” and leaders are meeting at UN Headquarters this week to address what has become a multifaceted global crisis, before...
Mar 21, 2023 · The world faces a water crisis — 4 powerful charts show how. Hundreds of millions of people lack access to safe water and sanitation. Will the first UN conference on water in nearly 50 years...
Mar 22, 2023 · The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to “spiral out of control” as increased demand for water and the intensifying impacts of the climate crisis put huge...
Jan 24, 2023 · Among the world’s ‘poly-crises’, the crisis of water is one of the most urgent. Worldwide, around 2 billion people lacked access to safe drinking water in 2020; and an estimated 1.7 billion...
Mar 24, 2023 · Responding to this, the Water Action Agenda, the key outcome of the Conference, captured over 700 commitments aimed at driving transformation from a global water crisis to a water-secure world.
Aug 1, 2023 · 01 August 2023. Water crisis: how local technologies can help solve a global problem. Climate change is making water stress worse for billions worldwide. Scaling up both new and traditional...
