The UN (United Nations) is an international organization which one of their purpose is to maintain international peace and security. To reach the purpose they aim for, the UN designed a blueprint with a series of goals called The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development also commonly known as SDG (Sustainable Development Goals).
SDG contains 17 goals which are an urgent call for countries around the world, one of them is to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. It is explained on the UN's official website as the 6th goal of SDG, safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene is still out of reach for billions of people by 2022.
Their overview mentioned some datas of global issues related to the topic, below are the explanation to each of the points.
1) 2,2 billion people lacked in safe drinking water management.
2) 3,5 billion people lacked in safe sanitation management.
3) 2,2 billion people lacked in reaching out hand washing facilities.
4) 2,4 billion people live in water-stressed countries by 2020.
5) 81% of the living species that are dependent on inland wetlands have declined since 1970.
To meet the targets for 2030, the pace of integrated water-resources-management progress must be accelerated. This includes progress acceleration on drinking water, for sanitation, and hygiene. It is also mentioned on the overview regarding the number of countries per progress level. To be precised, there are 55 countries on moderate level, 52 on moderate, 44 on close to target, and 22 on substantial.
