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Water is life.
Water is one of the most important substances on Earth.
All plants and animals must have water to survive.
If there were no water, there would be no life on earth.
Water is the core of sustainable development and is essential for socio-economic development, the health of ecosystems and for human survival itself.
It is vital to reducing the global burden of disease and improving the health, well-being and productivity of populations.
Tomorrow is World Water Day.
It is about celebrating water and raising awareness of the global water crisis and a central focus of enforcement is supporting the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Water and sanitation for all by 2030.
The theme of this year’s World Water Day is the valuation of water.
The value of water is much more than its price: water has enormous and complex value for our homes, food, culture, health, education, economy and the integrity of our natural environment.
If we ignore any of these values, we run the risk of mismanaging this finite and irreplaceable resource.
In Papua New Guinea, only 40% of people have access to safe water, one of the lowest rates in the Pacific islands.
PNG is one of 37 countries in the world facing extremely high water vulnerabilities, according to a new analysis released by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) globally ahead of World Water Day tomorrow.
The analysis is part of UNICEF’s Water Security for All initiative that identifies areas where the physical risks of water scarcity overlap with poor levels of water service. Communities living in these areas depend on surface water, unimproved sources, or where it can take more than 30 minutes to collect water.
The report says that the 8.5 million people of Papua New Guinea are among those with the least access to safe drinking water in the world.
Waterborne diseases are rampant in PNG because the majority of the country’s rural population drinks non-potable water from sources such as surface tap water and tap and well water that are exposed to contaminants.
One in five children worldwide does not have enough water to meet their daily needs, says UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
Fore said that a projection made by a 2017 UNICEF report indicated that nearly 1 in 4 children worldwide would be living in areas of extremely high water stress by 2040.
Children and families in vulnerable communities would be the hardest hit in this global water crisis.
In PNG, development partners are supporting the Government’s efforts to address the water crisis.
One such effort is a four-year Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash) project, also called Klinpela Komuniti Projek facilitated by Unicef, through financial support provided by the European Union, which is positively impacting productivity, health and the well-being of up to 160,000 people, including 40,000 children in 200 schools, 36 health centers and 800 communities in four districts.
The physical world of water is closely linked to the socio-political world, with water often being a key factor in managing risks such as hunger, epidemics, inequalities, and political instability.
Access to safe water must be a national concern because the results of unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene manifesting itself in childhood illnesses and deaths have many other serious consequences related to nutrition, health, education, poverty and poverty. economic growth and development.
Water means different things to different people.
