RT by @SfEP: 📢 #EUHaveYourSay on our Call For Evidence for the Water Resilience Strategy & the Water Efficiency First Principle!
If you have thoughts to share, data, research, and expertise to back them up, submit them by 🗓️ 4 March 👉 https://europa.eu/!XPPyVh
#WaterWiseEU #WaterAction
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RT by @EU_ENV: #SoilPollution affects
🍎the food we eat
💨the air we breath
💦 the water we drink
👉 https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/3cba5eed-e9a0-45f0-937b-35f26f2f2723
#SoilHealth #SoilAction #WaterAction
Via @FAOLandWater
[2024-09-27 12:00 UTC]
Soil pollution is invisible to the human eye, but it compromises the quality of the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe and puts human and environmental health at risk. Most contaminants originate from human activities such as industrial processes and mining, poor waste management, unsustainable farming practices, accidents ranging from small chemical spills to accidents at nuclear power plants, and the many effects of armed conflicts. Pollution knows no borders: contaminants are spread throughout terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and many are distributed globally by atmospheric transport. In addition, they are redistributed through the global economy by way of food and production chains. Soil pollution has been internationally recognized as a major threat to soil health, and it affects the soil’s ability to provide ecosystem services, including the production of safe and sufficient food, compromising global food security. Soil pollution hinders the achievement of many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including those related to poverty elimination (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), and good health and well-being (SDG 3). Soil pollution hits the most vulnerable hardest, especially children and women (SDG 5). The supply of safe drinking water is threatened by the leaching of contaminants into groundwater and runoff (SDG 6). CO2 and N2O emissions from unsustainably managed soils accelerate climate change (SDG 13). Soil pollution contributes to land degradation and loss of terrestrial (SDG 15) and aquatic (SDG 14) biodiversity, and decreased the security and resilience of cities (SDG 11), among others.
RT by @EU_ENV: 💧Water is life.
💧Water is food.
❌Water is NOT an infinite resource.
It's time to stop taking water for granted.
Let's take #WaterAction for food and be the change our world needs.
[2024-09-16 04:34 UTC]
RT by @EU_ENV: On 25-29 August #WorldWaterWeek takes place in 🇸🇪 Stockholm
The EU is committed to the #WaterAction Agenda to reach:
💧water security
💧global resilience
💧human right to safe drinking water & sanitation
💧protected & restored aquatic ecosystems
💧water supply & demand balance
[2024-08-23 07:59 UTC]
Following an opening keynote address by a representative of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation will be launched.Earlier on the same day, Principals from UN-Water Members will attend a breakfast meeting to discuss the Collaborative Implementation Plan, currently under development, that will guide the operationalization, localization, and monitoring of the System-wide Strategy.
RT by @EU_ENV: Dr. @florikafink Hooijer, Director-General of the Environment Department of the @EU_Commission, on the first-ever United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation.
https://www.unwater.org/news/launch-united-nations-system-wide-strategy-water-and-sanitation
#SDG6 #HLPF #HLPF2024 #WaterAction #SDG6SpecialEvent @EU_ENV
[2024-07-16 19:07 UTC]
Following an opening keynote address by a representative of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation will be launched.Earlier on the same day, Principals from UN-Water Members will attend a breakfast meeting to discuss the Collaborative Implementation Plan, currently under development, that will guide the operationalization, localization, and monitoring of the System-wide Strategy.
To date, the Water Action Agenda has more than 830 commitments, reflecting significant global mobilization and heightened ambition towards enhancing water and sanitation management.The aim of the mapping and progress report is to lay a solid groundwork for understanding the current landscape of Water Action Agenda commitments, the challenges faced, and the progress achieved. The authors conducted a survey and received responses from 280 commitment-holders.
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