My Trial to Understand the UN-SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

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My Trial to Understand the UN-SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

A trial to understand UN-SDG 6

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UN-SDG 6 

No one can deny the importance of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services. However, on the ground, no one can see that, especially in low-income lands. That pushes the concept of “supplying clean and adequate drinking water with the proper wastewater treatment” to be the UN-SDG no. 6.

In Egypt, as a developing country is facing a big challenge regarding UN-SDG no. 6. It has very limited water resources if compared with many other countries in Africa. That is stressing on water quality, quantity, and sanitation as well. In addition, some climatic changes have been recorded to affect the amount and quality of water reaching Egyptian governorates.

Many research articles have addressed extreme events occurring in certain time periods of the year. The highly affected sites with these extreme events were Alexandria and Upper Egypt due to heavy rains.  Adding to that, Egypt recently is trying to overcome a great economic crisis. The financial dimension cannot be ignored to achieve sustainable services. Therefore, the international funding agencies should allocate an adequate amount of money for achieving the UN-SDG no. 6 especially in developing and low-income countries.

Not only the political support, financial resources, technical knowledge are the main steering factors but also the good planning, management, integration, and community participation are the complimentary aspects for supplying enough safe water and good sanitation.

Finally, achieving the UN-SDG no.6: Clean Water and Sanitation is not so easy and not so difficult but it needs a global understanding of the importance of achieving that issue. The availability of political support, financial resources, technical knowledge, good planning and management, community participation and overall integration are the key to achieving clean water and adequate sanitation.

Resources and references:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg6

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/

Badir, M. K., & AlRahman, H. A. (2017). Climate Change and Extreme Events over Dabaa Region, Egypt. In Climate Change Research at Universities (pp. 263-273). Springer, Cham.

Said, M. A., El-Geziry, T. M., & Radwan, A. A. (2012, November). Long-term trends of extreme climate events over Alexandria region, Egypt. In International Conference on “Land-Sea Interactions in the Coastal Zone” Jounieh-Lebanon

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