Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) seeks to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’, and addresses the pathways to health, hygiene and ending hunger. This chapter highlights how reliable, weather-proof access to water is key for drinking, domestic uses, hy...

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Autor principal: van Koppen, Barbara
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Edward Elgar Publishing 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170001
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description Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) seeks to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’, and addresses the pathways to health, hygiene and ending hunger. This chapter highlights how reliable, weather-proof access to water is key for drinking, domestic uses, hygiene, and food preparation and processing from household to industrial scales. Further, agricultural water management and irrigation improve crop yields and can extend cropping into the ‘hunger’ season, also overcoming unexpected droughts. Moreover, water security stimulates investments in higher-value seeds and other inputs. Livestock, fisheries and aquaculture also depend on water availability. These pathways contribute to higher dietary diversity of micro-nutrient and protein-rich vegetables, meat, eggs, and other food for own consumption or sale. Water availability for multiple uses at homesteads is particularly effective for ending child malnutrition. However, food systems also risk polluting water. Therefore, SDG6 also envisages water quality control and resource recovery.
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spelling CGSpace1700012025-07-15T05:47:19Z Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all van Koppen, Barbara sustainable development goals goal 6 clean water and sanitation integrated water resources management water availability water quality sanitation Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) seeks to ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’, and addresses the pathways to health, hygiene and ending hunger. This chapter highlights how reliable, weather-proof access to water is key for drinking, domestic uses, hygiene, and food preparation and processing from household to industrial scales. Further, agricultural water management and irrigation improve crop yields and can extend cropping into the ‘hunger’ season, also overcoming unexpected droughts. Moreover, water security stimulates investments in higher-value seeds and other inputs. Livestock, fisheries and aquaculture also depend on water availability. These pathways contribute to higher dietary diversity of micro-nutrient and protein-rich vegetables, meat, eggs, and other food for own consumption or sale. Water availability for multiple uses at homesteads is particularly effective for ending child malnutrition. However, food systems also risk polluting water. Therefore, SDG6 also envisages water quality control and resource recovery. 2024-04-19 2025-01-26T08:12:12Z 2025-01-26T08:12:12Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170001 en Limited Access Edward Elgar Publishing van Koppen, Barbara. 2024. Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. In Hendriks, S. L.; Babu, S. C. (Eds.). Handbook on public policy and food security. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp.165-173. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105449.00021]
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goal 6 clean water and sanitation
integrated water resources management
water availability
water quality
sanitation
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Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title_full Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title_fullStr Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title_short Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
title_sort sustainable development goal 6 ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
topic sustainable development goals
goal 6 clean water and sanitation
integrated water resources management
water availability
water quality
sanitation
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