The UN raises the alarm on water: "Serious global shortage"

On the occasion of International Water Day, the UN raises the alarm about the serious global shortage, a crisis that worsens with the imminent risk of a global crisis. The world, said Secretary General Antonio Guterres, is "blindly walking on a dangerous path with unsustainable water use, pollution and global warming draining the lifeblood of humanity".

In these hours the conference on water opens at the United Nations. According to the UN report, there are about two billion people who do not have access to the precious safe drinkable resource, while 3.6 billion do not have access to reliable health services.

"Water scarcity is becoming endemic," reads the report, which notes that water use has increased globally by about 1% each year over the past 40 years and is expected to maintain similar growth rates until 2050.

(Unioneonline/ss)