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Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals
The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered global health, economic, and social crises, clouding the sky of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 to improve human lives while protecting nature. Water, vital for all forms of life, is essentia...
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The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Southern University of Science and Technology.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710009/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.horiz.2021.100005 |
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author | Irannezhad, Masoud Ahmadi, Behzad Liu, Junguo Chen, Deliang Matthews, John H. |
author_facet | Irannezhad, Masoud Ahmadi, Behzad Liu, Junguo Chen, Deliang Matthews, John H. |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered global health, economic, and social crises, clouding the sky of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 to improve human lives while protecting nature. Water, vital for all forms of life, is essential to public health and human well-being and smooth the path of ending poverty through food and energy security. Hence, we argued that global water security can serve as a shining star to guide policymakers through the overwhelming task of achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, currently hindered by the coronavirus outbreak. To quickly attain global water security while taking the accelerators of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6 “Clean Water and Sanitation”) into account, this study proposed different water-related interventions. To successfully implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development after the coronavirus pandemic, we call for immediate and sustainable interventions to act rapidly towards achieving water security and SDG6 worldwide and support the constant battle against the ongoing fight with COVID-19 and prepare for possible future pandemics. |
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spelling | pubmed-87100092021-12-28 Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals Irannezhad, Masoud Ahmadi, Behzad Liu, Junguo Chen, Deliang Matthews, John H. Sustainable Horizons Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered global health, economic, and social crises, clouding the sky of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 to improve human lives while protecting nature. Water, vital for all forms of life, is essential to public health and human well-being and smooth the path of ending poverty through food and energy security. Hence, we argued that global water security can serve as a shining star to guide policymakers through the overwhelming task of achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, currently hindered by the coronavirus outbreak. To quickly attain global water security while taking the accelerators of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6 “Clean Water and Sanitation”) into account, this study proposed different water-related interventions. To successfully implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development after the coronavirus pandemic, we call for immediate and sustainable interventions to act rapidly towards achieving water security and SDG6 worldwide and support the constant battle against the ongoing fight with COVID-19 and prepare for possible future pandemics. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Southern University of Science and Technology. 2022-01 2021-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8710009/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.horiz.2021.100005 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Southern University of Science and Technology. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Irannezhad, Masoud Ahmadi, Behzad Liu, Junguo Chen, Deliang Matthews, John H. Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title | Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title_full | Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title_fullStr | Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title_full_unstemmed | Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title_short | Global water security: A shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
title_sort | global water security: a shining star in the dark sky of achieving the sustainable development goals |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710009/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.horiz.2021.100005 |
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