An international pledge to ensure that all the world’s population has access to safe drinking water by 2030 is woefully off track, according to a major UN report
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It is intended as an update on progress towards ensuring that everyone in the world has access to safe drinking water by 2030 – one of the UN’s sustainable development goals adopted in 2015. The report has found that the global demand for water has risen by 1 per cent each year for the past 40 years and will continue to rise at a similar rate for the next 30 years. “This growth in demand is concentrated in emerging economies and lower-income countries,” says Connor. In particular, urban water demand is projected to increase by 80 per cent by 2050.Get the most essential health and fitness news in your inbox every Saturday.
The report also found that 46 per cent of the world’s population, making up 3.6 billion people, lack access to a toilet or latrine that disposes of human waste safely. Connor says the lack of access to water and sanitation around the world comes down to insufficient political will and priority-setting.
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