Climate Change
For hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate change is putting already stretched water resources and services under growing threat. A reliable clean water supply and decent toilets could be the difference between coping and not coping with the effects of our changing climate.
Source: https://washmatters.wateraid.org/climate-change#:~:text=Climate%20change%20is%20a%20serious,decade%20was%20the%20warmest%20yet.
As the world rallies against the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people in developing communities are already struggling with a public health catastrophe. Without clean water, people are constantly at risk from waterborne diseases such as cholera. Climate change is exacerbating this threat.
785 million people still do not have clean water close to home. Droughts, floods, salt water contamination, poor service management, weak governance and environmental degradation all contribute to this denial of their basic human right. Climate change is accelerating and amplifying these factors, increasing unpredictability of weather patterns and making extreme weather events and natural disasters more frequent and intense.
