Measures by the United Nations for global water security

United Nations Organization celebrates UN Day on 24th of October every year to mark foundation of organization and implementation of UN charter. United Nations Organization has recently anunced Sustainable Development Goals, that is a call for action by all citizens of world, to promote prosperity while causing harm to planet. initiative has been taken keeping in mind that re is a need to build ecomic growth and social growth in terms of education, health, social protection and employment, hirto being mindful of climate change and environment.

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17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also include water and sanitation. global scarcity of safe clean water is something that is affecting humanity at large and has also led to a major environmental degration. According to a report by UN, water scarcity affects more than 40% of global population and it could continue to rise in next few years. problems related to water are t just related to lack of clean drinking water. Every 3 in 10 people lack access to safely mand drinking water. It also gives rise to a lot of sanitation related problems. Every day, almost 3000 children across world die due to preventable water borne and sanitation related diseases. reports also state that around 24 billion people, globally have absolutely access to basic sanitation facilities like toilets and at least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation.

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Water and Sanitation stands as 6th major goal among SDGs. re are many targets that are anunced by UN that are mostly to be reached by 2030. It targets t only focus on ‘universal and equitable’ access to safe drinking water but also aims to improve quality of water by reducing pollution, restricting release of hazardous and chemical material in water bodies and promoting reuse and recycling of water on a global level. UN also aims to provide better sanitation to global population with special focus on girls and women, who are in a much worse condition. goals for near future include protection and restoration of water related ecosystem. UN, however, also aims to support and strengn community participation in improving all water and sanitation manment issues. support is extended to promote more and more contributions from people all around world.  United Nations declared 2018 – 2028 to be Water Action Dece to make more people aware of immediate action that should be taken for water securityNumerous organizations have contributed to promote simple water conservation methods and many governments have taken steps to ensure better water quality and sanitation facilities to citizens.

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