Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 15-03-2018
An Agenda for Water Action, released by a panel of 11 Heads of State and a Special Advisor has called for a fundamental shift in the way the world manages water.
According to the report ‘Making Every Drop Count: An Agenda for Water Action’, 40 per cent of the world’s people are being affected by water scarcity and If not addressed, as many as 700 million could be displaced by 2030 in search for water.
Currently more than two billion people are compelled to drink unsafe water and more than 4.5 billion do not have safely managed sanitation services.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres noting that 60 per cent of human body is water says the precious resource must be an absolute priority in everything we do.
“It is my deep belief that water is a matter of life and death,”
In a press release, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim stressed that Heads of State and Government make up the panel “because the world can no longer afford to take water for granted.”
“The ecosystems on which life itself is based – our food security, energy sustainability, public health, jobs, cities – are all at risk because of how water is managed today.”
Some 80 per cent of wastewater is discharged untreated into the environment and water-related disasters account for 90 per cent of the 1,000 most devastating natural disasters since 1990.
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