Water security and water quality affect numerous economic sectors and areas: agriculture, energy, disaster management, and others. Countries need balanced and integrated approaches that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable.
Water is at the centre of economic and social development: it is vital to maintain health, generate energy and create jobs while sustaining the natural environment.
More than 90% of impacts of climate change are related to water issues. These impacts are not only on water supply for household, industries and agriculture, but also on disasters and hazards during heavy rainfall, with flooded areas and landslides.
Lake Victoria in East Africa, the world’s second largest lake, is endowed with abundant water and other natural resources.
Wastewater is a valuable resource that we need to harness. That is the key message in a new publication from UN Environment, the Global Programme of Action and the Global Wastewater Initiative.
Most human activities that use water produce wastewater. As the overall demand for water grows, the quantity of wastewater produced and its overall pollution load are continuously increasing worldwide.