13 March 2025 - – The air was charged with a sense of purpose at UN ... drinking water. 3.5 billion people still lack safe sanitation. And 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity ...

This issue of the digital magazine of the UN system “buoys” the launch ... and with climate change having a growing impact, water scarcity is an enormous concern. By 2050 at least one in ...

The threat of scarcity is a growing one, exacerbated by an expanding population and developing countries forming consumption habits in line with those the western world has set. The UN’s 2017 World ...

In fact, the World Bank found that countries across the Middle East, North and Central Africa, and East Asia could each lose up to six percent of their GDP by 2050 as water scarcity negatively impacts ...

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The first International Soil and Water Forum opened this week in Bangkok to map out concrete measures to boost global efforts in managing water scarcity ... the UN Secretary-General's Special ...