New InterLink: July 2021 edition

Water deficiency is one of the biggest challenges of our time, and the problem will grow exponentially in the coming decades. Today, 2.1 billion people do not have safe water in their homes and in 2025, it is expected that 1.8 billion people will live with absolute water deficiency.

Globally, the water infrastructure is underrated, underfinanced and poorly maintained. But to increase the focus on the importance of water compared to all of the other great challenges the world is facing, we at AVK have chosen to produce a booklet with facts about water. This booklet focuses on the importance of water for climate, energy, health, food production, and development of societies to name a few of the topics. In our opinion, not enough resources are assigned to this topic globally and therefore, our aim is to make leaders and decision-makers aware of the fact that the global water issue not only concerns obtaining clean drinking water, but equally concerns health, people’s well-being and the development of societies.