{"id":301,"date":"2019-02-28T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/?p=301"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:34:40","slug":"achieving-water-security-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/brettcherry\/2019\/02\/28\/achieving-water-security-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving water security for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water security is a major challenge for countries throughout the world, especially urban and rural communities in developing countries. Water related disease kills more than 3.4 million people every year<\/a>, making it the leading cause of death.<\/p>\n

While water is a human right according to the United Nations, for everyone to have access to safe, potable drinking water and adequate sanitation requires significant advancement in water infrastructure, governance and education.<\/p>\n

To provide the 2.1 billion people on the planet who lack readily available drinking water<\/a> at home requires more than technological innovation, it demands collaborations that may appear ambitious in scope, but nevertheless are necessary for resolving deep rooted problems of water security.<\/p>\n

The GCRF Water Security Hub led by Newcastle University makes possible the collaborations needed to address water security in the developing world in a holistic way. I had the pleasure of speaking with some of the key researchers in the Hub from Newcastle in engineering and the social sciences.<\/p>\n

In Part 2 of this episode of the Science Perspective podcast they explain the importance of water security, and how the Hub is working with multiple stakeholders to achieve SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n