LINKS OF INTEREST
SDG
Front page
Latest UN news and information on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at www.un.org/en/coronavirus. 17 goals to transform our world In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an opportunity for countries and their communities to achieve their goals.
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation | UNDP
Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the world's population, an alarming figure that is likely to grow as global temperatures rise due to climate change. Although 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved water and sanitation since 1990, the declining availability of quality drinking water is a major problem affecting all continents.
DATA
Monitoring
In 2019 the JMP published harmonized baseline estimates for water, sanitation, hand hygiene, health care waste management, and environmental cleaning (WASH) services in health care facilities. The global baseline report found that one in four health care facilities (26%) lacked basic water services, while one in five (21%) had no sanitation service.
WORLD WATER DAY
2020 Home - World Water Day
"The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction."