Water is “the most precious common good,” and “needs to be at the center of the global political agenda,” Guterres said. theSun theSundaily environement water humanity Guterres UN
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks on arrival for a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 23, 2023. AFPPIX: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday delivered an urgent call for the world to modify and safeguard water resources to avert conflict and ensure future global prosperity.
Guterres earlier in the week described water as humanity’s “lifeblood” and said its “vampiric overconsumption” had “broken the water cycle” and led to more natural disasters. Despite this, “these voluntary commitments are a good start,“ he told AFP, referring in particular to a project led by Germany on the management of the Niger River basin which touches nine nations in Africa.“It’s probably the part of the world that is the most fragile, and where we’re starting to see actual violent conflict over water between different groups,“ he said.
“This issue is not going away. The water issue is only going to get worse. And I think that’s why everybody is starting to feel maybe now really is the time to get going,“ Orr said. In 2020, two billion people were still without safe drinking water and 3.6 billion lacked access to safely managed sanitation services, including 494 million who had to relieve themselves in the open, according to the latest figures compiled by the UN-Water website.
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