![]() ![]() Families, farms, factories and societies on every continent are being affected. This dysfunctional water cycle is already wreaking havoc. At the same time, climate change is making water supplies scarcer and more unpredictable, and many water sources are increasingly polluted. Agriculture is getting thirstier, as are industry, manufacturing and energy generation. It follows that the need for much faster action is utterly desperate-in particular among women, girls and marginalized groups. These are the most basic of services necessary for healthy human life. Let’s remind ourselves why we have a global water and sanitation crisis in the first place, and what this month’s UN 2023 Water Conference needs to achieve if we are to resolve it.Īs this Conference opens, 2 billion people will still be living without safely managed water and 3.6 billion without safely managed sanitation. ![]() Amid all the chatter about accelerating progress on water and sanitation, let’s take a moment to think about what we are doing and why it matters. ![]()
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