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??22 March is #worldwaterday-we are officially in a?#water #crisis?? "Demand is expected to outstrip fresh water supply by 40%, by 2030" just 7 years away ??"No person, place, economy or ecosystem will be spared" ??“The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis.?We are misusing?water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the #climate. It’s a triple crisis.”Oh wow, a triple crisis?? ??"The world’s current neglect of water resources is leading to disaster"said Prof. Johan Rockstrom, co-author of the OECD report?on "the #economics of water" ??Sewage systems need radical overhauls?“we use safe, fresh water to carry excreta, urine, nitrogen, phosphorus – and then need to have inefficient wastewater treatment plants that leak 30% of all the nutrients into downstream aquatic ecosystems and destroy them and cause dead zones. We’re really cheating ourselves in terms of this linear system" ?So, what can we do about this "triple crisis" of water? Well, we urgently need system change from our government policymakers, who need to act at lightning speed after decades of inaction. Remember: "Human survival depends on a sustainable water cycle" ? How can they ensure water security for their citizenry, I hear you ask? ?"Governments must urgently stop subsidising the extraction and overuse of water through misdirected agricultural subsidies, and industries from mining to manufacturing must be made to overhaul their wasteful practices." Now. The time is now. ??Did you know? "More than $1tn of subsidies globally go to agriculture and water each year and these often fuel excessive water consumption."That's $125 per person in a world of 8bn.?? ??Without clean water how can we have food security? "Water is?fundamental to the climate crisis?and the global food crisis." ?? Key recommended solutions: ??Reshaping policymaking and act immediately - "Water?leakage must be urgently addressed and restoring freshwater systems such as wetlands." ?? Scaling up investment in water management through public-private partnerships ??Pricing water properly and establishing “just water partnerships” to raise finance for water projects in developing and middle-income countries ????Reform the governance of water at an international level - include water in trade agreements. Women, farmers, indigenous people and others in the frontline of water conservation must be taken into account ???"1 child under 5 dies every 80 seconds from diseases caused by polluted water." (OECD,2023) “We need a much more proactive, and ambitious, common good approach. We have to put justice and equity at the centre.”Mariana Mazzucato, UCL professor of economics & lead author. ?? "Human survival depends on a sustainable water cycle." So, maybe a good time for sponge cities approaches?And water harvesting systems for all buildings?What else do you think we can do to help lessen the water crises? https://lnkd.in/d8waERJN