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According to the UN, nearly one-third of people globally lack access to safely managed drinking water services, and over half lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities. This lack of access can have potentially significant adverse impacts on people’s health, through water-related diseases, in addition to productivity and environmental impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the situation, and has demonstrated the critical importance of sanitation, hygiene and adequate access to clean water for preventing and containing diseases.
While substantial progress has been made in increasing access to clean drinking water and sanitation, billions of people – mostly in rural areas – still lack these basic services. More needs to be done to improve the situation and achieve one of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. The challenge lies in finding a way to use the world’s water more efficiently and make it available to all at a reasonable cost, while leaving sufficient quantities to sustain the environment. Green growth policies in the water sector can address issues of both quantity and quality by encouraging water-related innovation and investment in green infrastructure, and through integration with policies in other relevant sectors.
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Predicting the Water Rebound Effect in China under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Reliability of Relative Permeability Measurements for Heterogeneous Rocks Using Horizontal Core Flood Experiments
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Created a Post in Cities and Urban Development, Natural Capital, Water and Sanitation
Using Nature to Treat Wastewater
Urban wetlands breathe life into Sri Lanka’s capital city -- Colombo is built on and around wetlands, which keep people safe from floods, cool the air, filter polluted water, provide food and medicines, fight climate change, and provide city dwellers respite from the urban jungle. However, during the last 30 years, an estimated 40% of the wetlands in Colombo has been lost due to direct and indirect impacts of urbanization. If Colombo were to lose all its precious wetlands, the city would be flooded annually costing as much as 1% of its GDP in flood damage...
Created an Opportunity in Water and Sanitation
This is just such a fascinating topic and somehow I hear so little about it. Desalination - critical for water needs in dry areas but so energy intensive. What does it mean for our green and prosperous future?