Humanity's 'lifeblood' - water -is increasingly at risk around the world due to 'vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment,' the UN warned in a report, published hours ahead of a major summit on the issue was set to begin Wednesday. | ManilaBulletin
UNITED NATIONS, United States - Humanity's "lifeblood" -- water -- is increasingly at risk around the world due to "vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment," the UN warned in a report, published hours ahead of a major summit on the issue was set to begin Wednesday.
Richard Connor, lead author of report, told AFP that the impact of the "world water crisis" will be a "matter of scenarios." At the UN conference, governments and actors in the public and private sectors are invited to present proposals for a so-called water action agenda to reverse that trend and help meet the development goal, set in 2015, of ensuring "access to water and sanitation for all by 2030."
"There is much to do and time is not on our side," said Gilbert Houngbo, chair of UN-Water, a forum for coordinating work on the topic. The report notes the particular impact of existing water supplies becoming contaminated due to underperforming or nonexistent sanitation systems.
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