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Water and Sanitation Management Goals

The document discusses ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. While progress has been made in increasing access to drinking water and sanitation since 2015, billions still lack safely managed services. Water stress is also increasing in many areas of the world. Current rates of progress will need to accelerate to achieve universal access and integrated water resource management by 2030 as required by Goal 6 of the UN's sustainable development goals.

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Water and Sanitation Management Goals

The document discusses ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. While progress has been made in increasing access to drinking water and sanitation since 2015, billions still lack safely managed services. Water stress is also increasing in many areas of the world. Current rates of progress will need to accelerate to achieve universal access and integrated water resource management by 2030 as required by Goal 6 of the UN's sustainable development goals.

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Ensure Availability and

Sustainable Management of
Water and Sanitation for all

Riccardo Parla (Leader)


Mario Chianese
Bermet Erkinova
Meysam Ghasemi
Nazia Arain
Introduction

• Water is required across all sectors of society to produce food, energy,


goods and services.
• Billions of people around the globe live without safely managed drinking
water, sanitation and hygiene services
• Over the last century, global water use has increased at more than twice
the rate of population growth. Many water sources are drying up,
becoming more polluted or both.
• The world is not on track to achieve Goal 6. A dramatic acceleration in
current rates of progress and integrated and holistic approaches to water
management are badly needed.
Universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene

• Between 2015 and 2020, the proportion of the global population using safely
managed drinking water services increased from 70.2% to 74.3%, with the largest
numbers of people gaining access in Central and Southern Asia

• 3.6 billion people still lacked safely managed sanitation in 2020, including 1.7
billion who were without even basic sanitation.

• 494 million practiced open defecation, down from 739 million in 2015.

• Globally, only two in three schools had basic drinking water and sanitation services, and
three in five schools had basic hygiene services
Water stress is getting worse in subregions with already high or critical
levels
• In 2018, 2.3 billion people
lived in water-stressed
countries, of whom 721
million lived in countries
with high or critical levels.

• All economic sectors have


seen their water-use
efficiency improve since
2015, with a 15 % increase
in industry, 8 % in
agriculture and 8 % in the
service sector.
Countries are lagging in the implementation of integrated management
of water resources, central to a sustainable future

• To balance competing demands for water, many countries have


strengthened water laws, developed relevant policies and reinforced
institutions.

• Globally, the average implementation rate for the integrated management


of water resources increased from 49 per cent in 2017 to 54 per cent in
2020

• The current rate of progress needs to double, as 129 countries are not on
track to achieve sustainable management of water resources by 203
Thank you for your attention

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