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Assessing world water quality brings together a range of scientific disciplines and methodologies, as well as consideration of human-influenced factors such as urbanization, pollution and climate change. Reflections on some of those issues appear here.
The EPI assesses water quality based on the DALY rate (disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons from unsafe drinking water). Ten European countries, including Austria, Finland, Greece, and Iceland, share the top EPI ranking for the cleanest water worldwide.
4 gru 2023 · The world is facing a water quality challenge due to serious and increasing water pollution, both in developed and developing countries. This poses a growing risk to public health, food security, biodiversity and other ecosystem services.
Foreword: A Snapshot of the World’s Water Quality “Towards a global assessment” Flowing knowledge The quality of surface water in many parts of the developed world has noticeably improved in recent decades, but is being challenged as economic growth, demographics and climate change lead to widespread and severe degradation.
• Good water quality, together with an adequate quantity of water, are necessary for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for health, food security and water security. Therefore it is of concern
Central questions include: ‘how can the water quality target be achieved?’; ‘How will worsening water pollution affect SDGs for health, food security, and biodiversity, among others?’; Or, conversely, ‘how can actions to protect and enhance water quality help meet other SDGs?’.
26 lut 2022 · The United Nations (UN) collaborates with most countries of the world in collecting water quality monitoring data through the Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water program (GEMS/Water).
