What am I?
UN’s Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation, Goal 6, calls for universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water by 2030.
Water is central to fighting poverty and hunger, safeguarding human health, reducing child mortality, and managing and protecting natural resources. Around the world some 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, 4.2 billion lack sanitation, and 700 million people could be displaced due to scarcity of water by 2030, 250 million only in Africa alone.
As the largest provider of transboundary water management solutions in the UN System, the focus for UNDP is on integrated water management to ensure water access, water security, and water quality.