Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Clean drinking water and proper sanitation facilities for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in. There is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this.But unfortunately, most of it is trapped in the polar ice caps.
Due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, every year millions of people, mostly children, die from diseases related to inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Unavailability of clean drinking water proper sanitation facilities negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for people worldwide. Natural calamities like drought affects some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition.
Water and sanitation are at the very core of sustainable development, critical to the survival of people and the planet. Goal 6 not only addresses the issues relating to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, but also the quality and sustainability of water resources worldwide.
INDIA AND CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
The overall proportion of Indian households with access to improved water sources increased from 68% in 1992-93 to 90.6% in 2011-12. However, in 2012, 59% of rural households and 8% of urban households did not have access to improved sanitation facilities. Almost 600 million people in India defecate in the open – the highest number in the world. Improving sanitation is a key priority of the government which has introduced several flagship programmes including the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to clean India, the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, and Namami Gange, which aims at the conservation of the River Ganga.
TAIWAN AND CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
Students in Taiwan have explored a local river to show how serious the clean water and sanitation is to the society and the country.
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