Water and Sanitation Looms Behind Food, Energy and Climate Crisis

UNITED NATIONS-The World Water Week in Stockholm concluded this week with 2400 scientists, leaders from governments and civil society declaring that slow progress on sanitation will cause the world to badly fail the Millennium Development Goals while weak policy, poor management, increasing waste and exploding water demands are pushing the planet towards the tipping point of global water crisis.

Action is crucial, stakes are high and time is running out were key messages coming from the World Water Week in Stockholm.

Sanitation and hygiene, climate, water management, ecosystems and business issues were prominent programme focal points throughout the week.

SIWI itself released new research that showed half of food is lost after it is produced and called for governments and individuals around the world to reduce by half the amount of food that is lost to ease pressure on water and land resources.

The World Water Week, which included 200 co-convening organisations, witnessed the launch of a number of new and groundbreaking studies, reports and initiatives designed to improve a global situation where billions of people are without sustainable access to safe drinking water or suffering ill health due to poor sanitation, where bio-energy demands are diverting water from food production, and where global climate change is shaking the overall water balance.

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Source: Maxims News

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