SDGs

SDG 6 — to ensure access to safe water sources and sanitation for all

Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is a human right. The demand for water has outpaced population growth, and half the world’s population is already experiencing severe water scarcity at least one month a year. Water is essential not only to health, but also to poverty reduction, food security, peace and human rights, ecosystems and education. Nevertheless, countries face growing challenges linked to water scarcity, water pollution, degraded water-related ecosystems and cooperation over transboundary water basins.

Because water is essential and central to all of our lives, it is almost impossible to capture all of the issues within just one group of targets. As a result, water also features in several other SDGS.

SDG 1 — to end proverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030

Target 1.4 — By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.

SDG 3 — to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages

Target 3.3 — By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.

SDG 11 — to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Target 11.5 — By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations.

SDG 12 — to ensure sustainable consumpton and production patterns

Target 12.2 — By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

Target 12.4 — By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

SDG 15 — to sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss

Target 15.1 — By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements.

Target 15.8 — By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species.