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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Topic: Clean water and sanitation for good health maintenance

General Speakers List (GSL)


Topic: Clean water and sanitation for good health maintenance
Speech 1
A delegate from UAE would like to say…
Access to drinking water and sanitation is a basic human right. Achieving
universal, adequate, and equitable access to safely managed water and sanitation
services is at the core of sustainable development. This is reflected in SDG 6.
The importance of good hygiene through hand washing and access to clean
water is being increasingly highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite
progress over the past few decades, billions of people worldwide still lack
access to clean water and sanitation, with only 10 years left to achieve SDG 6.
Safely managed water is a demanding standard. For many low- and middle-
income countries, the priority remains to expand access to basic water services.
The top two levels of service, safely managed and basic water, are often
grouped together as “at least basic drinking water service.”
This combined indicator is essential for tracking how access to drinking
water is being met across different segments of society. “No one is left behind”
is a fundamental premise of the SDGs, but access differs greatly across
populations, depending on where people live or their income level.
Part 2
A delegate from UAE would like to say…
While substantial progress has been made in increasing access to clean
drinking water and sanitation, billions of people—mostly in rural areas—still
lack these basic services. Worldwide, one in three people does not have access
to safe drinking water, two out of five people do not have a basic hand-washing
facility with soap and water, and more than 673 million people still practice
open defecation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the critical importance of
sanitation, hygiene, and adequate access to clean water for preventing and
containing diseases. Hand hygiene saves lives. Handwashing is one of the most
effective actions you can take to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent
infections, including the COVID-19 virus. Yet billions of people still lack safe
water sanitation, and funding is inadequate.

Moderate Causes
Topic 1: The Impact of Reduced Clean Water
Speech 2
A delegate from UAE would like to say…
The water crisis has often hit several areas so that the population's water
needs for household, agricultural, and other basic needs are not fulfilled. The
direct impacts of the lack of water demand include failure to cultivate crops and
harvest which causes disruption of food supplies, poor sanitation, and hunger
which has an impact on the emergence of diseases due to lack of food and
malnutrition.
Closely related to the water and food crisis is poor sanitation which is also a
problem for around 2.0 billion people in the world. Many diseases due to the
crisis of water and poor sanitation, such as diseases caused by hunger,
malnutrition, cholera, typhus, and dysentery are still a threat to most of the
world's population.
According to a report by FAO (2000), about 2.0 million people, mostly
children from several poor and developing countries, die each year from these
diseases due to water scarcity and hunger. The water crisis can also disrupt
regional and national economies.

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