Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
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Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking
water source has increased from 76 per cent to 91 per cent
But water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is projected to
rise. Over 1.7 billion people are currently living in river basins where water use exceeds
recharge
2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines
More than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers
or sea without any pollution removal
Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related
diarrhoeal diseases
Hydropower is the most important and widely-used renewable source of energy and as of
2011, represented 16 per cent of total electricity production worldwide
Approx. 70 per cent of all water taken from rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for irrigation
Floods and other water-related disasters account for 70 per cent of all deaths related to
natural disasters
Ref:http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/waterand-sanitation/
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