WWIRE IS LOOKING FOR WATER SPECIALIST TO HELP OUR PLANET BE MORE SUSTAINABLE.

WWIRE World Women Impacting Real Estate are LOOKING FOR WATER SPECIALIST TO HELP OUR PLANET BE MORE SUSTAINABLE.

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1 in 3 people or 2.2 billion people around the world lack safe drinking water

A report in 2019 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) finds that 2.2 billion people, more than a quarter of the global population, live far below contemporary standards for safe water and sanitation.

“As the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic continues, climate change is fueling water challenges around the world, which will hit developing countries hardest”,?said Mari Pangestu, the World Bank Managing Director for Development Policy and Partnerships.?“In cities receiving migrants from rural areas due to rainfall variability, it pays to prevent such crises in an integrated way, to support green, resilient and inclusive development.”

Cities are also facing an increasing number of day-zero events, where they risk running out of water. Alongside recent acute water shortages in Cape Town, South Africa; Chennai, India; S?o Paolo, Brazil; and Basra, Iraq, dozens of smaller cities contend with similar events, but do not make international headlines. This underlines the need to preserve and sustainably manage water resources.

Without safe and effective water, sanitation and hygiene services, children are at risk of malnutrition and preventable diseases including diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera and polio. Girls are particularly affected: They are vulnerable to sexual violence as they collect water or venture out to use latrines. They deal with affronts to their dignity as they bathe and manage menstrual hygiene. And they miss classes during menstruation if their schools have no suitable water and sanitation facilities.??

“The odds are already stacked against children living through prolonged conflicts – with many unable to reach a safe water source,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “The reality is that there are more children who die from lack of access to safe water than by bullets."

Water scarcity is among the main problems to be faced by many societies and the World in the XXIst century.

While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only?2.5 percent?of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields.

This leaves us with roughly 0.4% of the earth’s water which is usable and drinkable to be shared among the 7.944 billion of its today's inhabitants

Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made phenomenon. Water is distributed unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed.

Groundwater depletion is simply the act of gathering or "depleting" the groundwater supply by pumping it to the surface. It becomes a serious concern when the rate at which groundwater is being depleted surpasses the rate at which it can be replenished. Because groundwater supply is difficult to measure, the amount of available water for any given region can be easily miscalculated. Overuse is unfortunately all too common.

Some 52 percent of the world's projected 9.7 billion people will live in water-stressed regions by 2050, MIT researchers say.

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