The official website has details on this year’s theme water and work. It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report. It estimates that estimated that 1.2 billion jobs, or 36% of the world’s total active workforce, are moderately water-dependent. It presents the argument that water, jobs and sustainable development of any country are intrinsically related.
Other key UN publications relating to water include:
- The Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) which reports biennially on the capacity of countries to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goals’ water and sanitation targets.
- The Key Water indicators Portal provides free access to mappings of recent data on water resources and access by country. It includes information on population and geographical features.
The Wateraid charity website has resources relating to its campaigns. On World Water Day it revealed the high cost of water in developing countries – estimating that 50 litres of water costing 7p to a UK citizen would cost the equivalent of £1.84 or over 50% of a typical poor persons daily salary.
Water Integrity Network launched a 2016 outlook report which revealed how reducing corruption in water governance and increasing transparency and accountability could improve the situation.
World Bank has information and data on its water and development programmes.
However it is not just in developing countries that water poverty arises. In 2015 UNISON released a report on affordability in the UK. It found that 22% struggled to pay household water bills.
Regulator Ofwat recently published a report on investigations and measures relating to water affordability in the UK.
The Consumer Council on Water website has market research reports on consumers’ expectations and perception of water pricing and the industry.
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