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Explore the global water crisis, water shortage, and lack of water affecting billions. Learn how Water.org is tackling these water problems to transform lives.
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.
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.
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 %.
Water scarcity limits access to safe water for drinking and for practising basic hygiene at home, in schools and in health-care facilities. When water is scarce, sewage systems can fail and the threat of contracting diseases like cholera surges. Scarce water also becomes more expensive.
Understand the global water crisis affecting 2.2 billion people, and how Water.org is working to provide clean drinking water to solve worldwide water problems.
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 · 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...
A Clean Water Crisis. The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago. While the amount of freshwater...
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.
