GCCA the Hidden Crisis Reduced
WATER The hidden climate crisis Martin Atkin “An approach to climate change that recognizes the importance of water can combat both the causes and impacts of climate change.” - UN Climate Change WATER: THE HIDDEN CLIMATE CRISIS Water is one of nature’s great paradoxes. Society Network on Water and Sanitation Essential for life on earth, we suffer if there’s (ANEW) told a recent online conference on not enough and we suffer if there’s too much. accelerating action on water and climate at Climate change is increasingly upsetting this COP26. “These women and girls, and their delicate balance. More and more people face daughters’ daughters, will be locked into a life water insecurity both from extreme drought of ill-health, violence and poverty if we fail to and extreme flooding. address the water crisis.” The data is alarming. Half the world’s Covid-19 has highlighted the gross population live in water-scarce areas. By inequalities of water scarcity. “It’s shocking 2025, two-thirds may face water shortages. that right now, forty percent of the global More than two billion people have no safe, population does not have enough water to do clean, easily accessible water supply. 800 adequate hand washing,” says Betsy Otto, million people - most of them women and Director of the Global Water Program at the girls - have to walk more than a kilometre World Resources Institute (WRI). According from their homes to fetch water. Global water to the International Food Policy Research demand has been rising by one percent a year Institute (IFPRI), “In many communities since the 1980s.
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