{"id":2497,"date":"2016-03-24T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","slug":"22nd-march-was-world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/03\/24\/22nd-march-was-world-water-day\/","title":{"rendered":"22nd March was World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/news\/en\/\">The official website<\/a> has details on this year\u2019s theme water and work.\u00a0 It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report.\u00a0 It estimates that estimated that 1.2 billion jobs, or 36% of the world\u2019s total active workforce, are moderately water-dependent.\u00a0 It presents the argument that water, jobs and sustainable development of any country are intrinsically related.<\/p>\n<p>Other key UN publications relating to water include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/publications\/glaas\/en\/\">Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)<\/a> which reports biennially on the capacity of countries to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goals&#8217; water and sanitation targets.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/kwip\">Key Water indicators Portal<\/a> provides free access to mappings of recent data on water resources and access by country.\u00a0 It includes information on population and geographical features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Wateraid charity website has resources relating to its campaigns.\u00a0 On World Water Day it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wateraid.org\/uk\/news\/news\/how-much-would-you-pay-for-clean-water\">revealed the high cost of water in developing countries &#8211;<\/a> estimating that 50 litres of water costing 7p to a UK citizen would cost the equivalent of \u00a31.84 or over 50% of a typical poor persons daily salary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterintegritynetwork.net\/wigo\/\">Water Integrity Network<\/a> launched a 2016 outlook report which revealed how reducing corruption in water governance and increasing transparency and accountability\u00a0 could improve the situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/water\">World Bank<\/a> has information and data on its water and development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>However it is not just in developing countries that water poverty arises.\u00a0 In 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unison.org.uk\/content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/TowebWater-industry-NPI-final-06-04-15.pdf\">UNISON released a report on affordability in the UK<\/a>.\u00a0 It found that 22% struggled to pay household water bills.<\/p>\n<p>Regulator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofwat.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/prs_inf_afford.pdf\">Ofwat recently published a report<\/a> on investigations and measures relating to water affordability in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccwater.org.uk\/blog\/category\/reports\/\">Consumer Council on Water website<\/a> has market research reports on consumers\u2019 expectations and perception of water pricing and the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official website has details on this year\u2019s theme water and work.\u00a0 It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report.\u00a0 It estimates that estimated that 1.2 billion jobs, or 36% of the world\u2019s total active workforce, are moderately water-dependent.\u00a0 It presents the argument that water, jobs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,9],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}