WATER SECURITY

Water security - a sustainable and adequate quantity and quality of water - is essential to human life, food and energy security, health and wellbeing, and economic prosperity. Yet nearly eighty per cent of the world's population live in areas where water security is thwarted by pressures such as climate change, conflict, ecosystem damage, extreme weather, gender inequalities, land degradation, over-abstraction, pollution, poor governance and uncontrolled urbanisation. The Hub brings together an international team to address these threats and contribute towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).

Primary location: Newcastle Upon Tyne United Kingdom