With the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, Tudor Rose and its Human Development Forum has accepted the challenge to expand its human development publishing with the creation of a series of volumes, each dedicated to one or more of the 17 SDGs. Entitled A Better World,
this volume published in March 2018 covers Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all. Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in. There is suf cient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. But due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, every year millions of people, most of them children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. Drought af icts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition. By 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live
in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. This volume re ects the progress and challenges in this essential topic, highlighting good practices in a wide variety of societies and disciplines.
By focusing on the experiences and livelihoods of people, especially those in vulnerable human habitats, the book will show the bene ts of best policy and practices, and how these may develop further as we come to terms with a changing and more turbulent world. This innovative endeavour is a striking example of sharing respective resources to engage the many of cial governmental, international organisations, institutional and professional interests in displaying the extent and variety of their efforts to make the world a better place.
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