Clean Water and Sanitation

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 6. Ensure availability of water and sanitation for all.

[New] Cities are projected to grow by 2.5 billion people by 2050, which means more demand for water, solid waste and wastewater management - all while dealing with more climate stress.
[New] Rising sea levels are threatening the Pacific Paradise - Tuvalu MUNiSC 2021 Economic and Social Council MUNiSC occurring, people are suffering from a lack of water.
[New] Water around the Great Barrier Reef will reach average temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius during summers by the end of the century.
[New] With rising sea levels from global warming, the total water surface area of planet Earth is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years.
[New] With nearly two-thirds of the world's population expected to face water shortages by 2025, water scarcity presents a growing risk for businesses and communities around the world.
[New] The 14 markets that constitute the Ocean Panel, including Canada, Australia, and Japan, have pledged to sustainably manage 100% of the ocean area according to the national jurisdiction by 2025.
[New] Under the terms of the Brexit trade deal, boats from France and the rest of the EU can still fish in British water but over the next five-and-a-half years a quarter of their quota will be handed over to the UK.
[New] As scarcity becomes a greater issue around the globe, the water treatment field is expected to become worth more than approximately $38 billion by the year 2025.
[New] Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has announced that the population in the rural regions which enjoy stable drinking water supply will reach 10.2 million by the end of the current government's incumbency (August).
[New] Depending on the degree of global warming in the future, the water level could fall by 9 to 18 meters during this century.
[New] The interim fisheries regulation would continue until the end of 2021, but it provides for continued reciprocal access by EU and UK vessels to each other's waters.
[New] Examining actions to protect marine life over the past decade, the European court of auditors raised a red flag warning the EU had failed to halt marine biodiversity loss in Europe's waters and restore fishing to sustainable levels.
The U.S. alone will need to invest $4.5 trillion over the next 5 years for infrastructure upgrades to water, energy, public roads, transportation, exporters and more.
Nearly half the world's population, around 3.6 billion people, face water-scarcity for at least one month per year, and it is expected that over 5 billion people will suffer some water shortage by 2050.
By 2050 nearly half of the world population will live in water stressed regions, due to either arid conditions or lack of access to clean water.
Halt of new drilling permits on federal lands and waters puts 1.1 million b/d of oil output and 3.7 Bcf/d of gas output at risk by 2025 if existing permits and drilled-but-uncompleted wells are allowed to continue.
While Toyota has just begun to dip its toe into EV manufacturing in 2020 with a mysterious SUV slated for release in 2021, the Hyundai Motor Group has taken to EVs like a fish to water.
The global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% in 2030, with some cities, like Cape Town, already suffering from water stress.
Fisheries Act 2020 is now part of UK Law and will enable UK to have more control over fisheries within British waters through a new foreign vessel licensing regime and ends the current automatic rights for EU vessels to fish in UK waters.
By 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer water scarcity at least one month each year.
President-elect Joe Biden has said that one of his first steps upon taking office will be to pass an executive order to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
U.S. crude production will fall by about 2.5 million barrels a day in 2021 as oil prices are still too low to earn attractive returns.
Fujitsu plans to decarbonize its own business by 2050 using ICT, while working to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and to prevent and mitigate disasters as well as conserve water resources, through its business activities.

Last updated: 17 January 2021

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