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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.
Created a Post in Cities and Urban Development, Climate Change, Water and Sanitation
Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities
Created a Post in Climate Change, Industry and Entrepreneurship, Water and Sanitation
As the world works towards a green recovery from COVID-19, a new CDP report explores how buyers and suppliers are addressing risks from climate change, deforestation, and water security.
Key findings: - Environmental supply chain risks could cost companies $120 billion in the next 5 years. - Supply chain emissions are 11.4x higher than operational emissions – double previous estimates. - Buyers are increasingly demanding transparency and action from suppliers to tackle environmental impacts in supply chains. - Suppliers cut emissions by 619 mtCO2, but they must now engage their own value chains on climate, deforestation & water risks.
Created a Post in Water and Sanitation
‘Investors voice concerns about overvaluing assets, but undervaluing assets is of even greater concern’: LAPFF’s Doug McMurdo on water risk
To highlight the escalating global water crisis, this year’s UN World Water Day on March 22 will focus on valuing water. With water demand expected to exceed supply by 56% within the decade, companies, investors and institutions are being called on to not only recognise the challenges of pricing water appropriately, but consider the social, environmental and cultural value of water.
An Effective Solid Waste Management and Environmental sanitation Diseases Reduction Module of Ghana- A Case of Thetechiman Municipal Area, Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana
Physical Development and Renal Functions in Adolescents Consuming Drinking Water with High Content of Vital Cation
Cities are turning to green infrastructure to improve water quality and manage water quantity by restoring the hydrologic function of the urban landscape. One city doing so is Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fate of Urban Groundwater in Shallow Confined Aquifers. Case Study of Baldia Town, Karachi, Pakistan
Comparative Study of Conventional Groundwater Quality Results with WQI Technique: A Case Study of Surjani Town, Karachi, Pakistan
Created a Post in Industry and Entrepreneurship, Water and Sanitation
Companies need to advocate for science-based public policy and regulations on water management issues at the local, state and national levels. This includes but is not limited to science-based allocations and discharge limits, infrastructure funding and efforts aimed at maximizing local water supplies.
IMPACT OF ETHANOL, METHANOL AND SULFIDES ON THE NITRIFICATION PROCESS OF AMMONIUM IONS IN NATURAL WATERS