Today is United Nations World Water Day, which is recognized annually on March 22, and aims to highlight the importance of the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The theme for 2011 is “Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge,” emphasizing the effects of population growth in cities, industrialization, climate change and natural disasters, like the one currently unfolding in Japan, on urban water systems.
Consider the following facts about water and cities around the world* :
• 141 million urban dwellers do not have access to safe drinking-water.
• One out of four city residents worldwide, 789 million in total, lives without access to improved sanitation facilities.
• For the first time in history, most of the world’s population lives in cities: 3.3 billion people.
Water is the most important of our resources...and we need to solve these issues... clearn water needs to be protected, water access needs to be improved and we need to work as one-planet to make this happen.
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