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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
Our Future Water has collaborated with Denmark’s State of Green to publish the new white paper ‘Urban Water Management: Creating Climate-Resilient Cities’.
Urban water security: The role of demand management
Created a Post in Circular Economy, Climate Change, Water and Sanitation
World Water Week 2022 begins today!
And our latest #GGKPInsights from Our Future Water's Robert Brears and SDG Monitor's Victoria Madsén highlights why Europe needs to transition to a circular water economy — for the benefit of people, planet, and business.
What does circular water management look like? ? Reduce water consumption ? Reuse water ? Recycle water ? Recover materials from wastewater ? Regenerate natural capital
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Created a Post in Climate Change, Water and Sanitation
Wisdom for us and for the ages from a personal Superhero - Chief Seattle (1786-1866)...
Growing up in a Suquamish village along the Puget Sound, Seattle witnessed the arrival of the first white settlers in the Northwest. By the time he became Chief of his tribe, the early forays of trappers had given way to a steady stream of settlers. And so it fell to Chief Seattle to devise a strategy for dealing with these invaders. Rejecting violence and outright war with the settlers, this great Chief put his efforts and trust in peaceful dialogue. But as the intentions of the new arrivals became clear, his goal focused exclusively and simply on the survival of his people....and the rest is history.
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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all....One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ___ https://lnkd.in/gmisepwP https://lnkd.in/gA-cd9eY https://lnkd.in/gxHgXC4n https://lnkd.in/gtFmKVGX https://lnkd.in/gf3xSgaN https://lnkd.in/ePquTjz https://lnkd.in/gEMu4ady https://lnkd.in/g_QyZYMV https://lnkd.in/gf_VE6cv https://lnkd.in/gWuzkhJw https://lnkd.in/gVK4nJdj https://lnkd.in/gZrgi-PB https://lnkd.in/gDGtyYBP https://lnkd.in/g2AuUUXS https://lnkd.in/g7nuUtDw
Created a Post in Climate Change, Natural Capital, Water and Sanitation
Nature-based solutions can mitigate emissions while at the same time enhancing the resilience of communities to climate change
Climate Resilient Water Resources Management
https://medium.com/mark-and-focus/nature-based-solutions-for-water-secu…
Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change, Water and Sanitation
Introducing the Tri-Agency Earth Observing Dashboard (EOD) by NASA, ESA, and JAXA...
International collaboration among space agencies is central to the success of satellite Earth observations and data analysis, aiming at providing an accurate and timely information to decision-makers, main stakeholders and public. These partnerships foster more comprehensive measurements, robust datasets, and cost-effective missions (EOD, 2022).
The European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have combined their resources, technical knowledge, and expertise to produce this Earth Observing Dashboard, which strengthens our understanding of global environmental changes and other societal challenges impacting our planet (EOD, 2022).
The dashboard provides an easy-to-use resource for all kinds of public from the scientist to the decision-maker, including people not familiar with satellites. Based on accurate remote sensing observations, the EOD showcases examples of global environmental changes on 7 themes: Atmosphere, Oceans, Biomass, Cryosphere, Agriculture, Covid-19 and Economy. The dashboard offers a precise, objective and factual view without any artifacts of our planet. Users can explore countries and regions around the world to see how the indicators in specific locations changed over time. ESA, JAXA, and NASA will continue to enhance this dashboard as new data becomes available (EOD, 2022). ___ https://eodashboard.org/
UNICEF: An Unstoppable Force for Change in the Lives of Our Precious Children Around the World...
Since the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was first established in the aftermath of World War II, these wonderful people have been at the frontlines of humanitarian crises, armed conflict and natural disasters. Undeterred by the scale of the crises, they have risen to every challenge, reimagining what is possible and responding by helping millions of children survive and thrive. Their on-the-ground expertise has reached more than 191 countries and territories, through committed partnerships and a passion for innovation (UNICEF, 2022).
For 75+ years, UNICEF has been working tirelessly for child rights and for the well-being of every child. UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines, and supports children's health and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, quality education and skill building, HIV prevention and treatment for mothers and babies, and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the mental health of a generation of children. But the pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long (UNICEF, 2021). The State of the World’s Children 2021 examines child, adolescent and caregiver mental health. It focuses on risks and protective factors at critical moments in the life course and delves into the social determinants that shape mental health and well-being. It calls for commitment, communication and action as part of a comprehensive approach to promote good mental health for every child, protect vulnerable children and care for children facing the greatest challenges (UNICEF, 2021). __ https://www.unicef.org/ https://www.unicef.org/about-unicef https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covid-19 https://www.unicef.org/where-we-work https://www.unicef.org/reports/state-worlds-children-2021 https://www.unicef.org/media/112536/file/HAC-2022-Overview.pdf https://www.unicef.org/sdgs https://www.voicesofyouth.org/ https://www.unicef.org/careers/explore-careers-unicef https://www.unicef.org/reports/state-global-education-crisis https://www.unicef.org/reports https://www.unicef.org/careers/
Created a Post in Water and Sanitation, Energy
How to prevent water and energy waste in the shower? Basically, controlling our shower time which must not be longer than 5 or 6 minutes. Therefore, we reduce water and gas consumption. Shower consumption is particularly high given that water comes into the house at a very low temperature and we have to warm it up to 45º celsius, which means a lot of gas consumption. On the other hand, if we compare it with heating, it is a CLOSED water CIRCUIT that is not colder than 16º and we rise its temp. up to 55º and we just have to keep it at this temperature Therefore, proportionally, heating systems consume far more than showers and we must cut the time we spend in the barthtub.