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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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Webinar: Building Resilient, Sustainable and Green Water and Wastewater Services
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Many households in low and middle-income countries are still not connected to sewerage networks and don't have access to safely managed sanitation. Check out this new guidelines by the World Bank to implement inclusive sanitation in urban areas. For key points you can read this short article: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/11/19/connecting-the-unc…
Land Management and Drought Mitigation Science-Policy Brief
The Global Land Outlook: East Africa Thematic Report: Responsible Land Governance to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality
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Happy World Toilet Day! Sustainable sanitation and climate change are inextricably linked (worldtoiletday.info) -- people need climate resilient sanitation, and sustainable sanitation has the potential to boost agriculture and produce green energy. Learn more about financing water supply and sanitation in a changing climate in this new report by water.org and the Pacific Institute
While many lower-income countries bear the brunt of climate change, the majority of climate finance for water projects is going to middle-income countries, according to new research conducted by Overseas Development Institute. The top 20 recipients receive the majority of this finance as loans instead of grants, and to large infrastructure for water resources management and WASH. Lack of data might have been the reason behind this issue.
Mining sector is a major user of water and is also exposed to risk from water pollution with an estimated financial impact of $24.9bn. However, CDP has found that the number of mining companies disclosing this risk has stagnated.
Water cycle in dryland, a good knowledge output from UNU