Explore the global water crisis, water shortage, and lack of water affecting billions. Learn how Water.org is tackling these water problems to transform lives.

2025年3月6日 · Water is the essence of life, yet millions worldwide lack access to the clean water they need for drinking, cooking, bathing, handwashing, and growing food. Despite progress, the global water crisis continues to impact the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Water scarcity limits access to safe water for drinking and for practising basic hygiene at home, in schools and in health-care facilities. When water is scarce, sewage systems can fail and the threat of contracting diseases like cholera surges. Scarce water also becomes more expensive.

Learn about the causes, effects, and solutions to the global water crisis and how we are helping communities access clean water worldwide. Access to clean and safe drinking water is a basic human need and a cornerstone of health.

The clean water crisis is an emerging global crisis affecting approximately 785 million people around the world. [56] 1.1 billion people lack access to water and 2.7 billion experience water scarcity at least one month in a year. 2.4 billion people suffer …

2023年3月22日 · Globally, 2 billion people (26% of the population) do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion (46%) lack access to safely managed sanitation, according to the report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water and released today at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York.

2023年4月19日 · Environmental experts told ABC News about the future of water in America and problems the country is facing now. Where is America's water crisis? "The American West is certainly in a water crisis," Reed Maxwell, a professor …

2023年4月3日 · Water scarcity happens when communities can’t fulfill their water needs, either because supplies are insufficient or infrastructure is inadequate. Today, billions of people face some form of...

2024年11月19日 · A global water crisis caused by land use changes and climate change is affecting economies, societies and the planet. A recent report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water outlines how this endangers the world’s freshwater supply and how to build water resilience.

Understand the global water crisis affecting 2.2 billion people, and how Water.org is working to provide clean drinking water to solve worldwide water problems.