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DATELINE: 18 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
18 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Water is the source of life, health and livelihoods across the world. The provision of safe drinking water is one of the basic responsibilities of national and local government. Water drives the decisions of businesses and, in many places, determines the rhythm of daily life. Too little water at the times when it is needed most can mean drought and food insecurity.”
4. Med shot, Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Too much water – in the form of floods, storms or waves – can devastate entire cities, rich or poor.
Contaminated water, whether from human or industrial sources, is claiming the lives of children and affecting the health of communities worldwide, with far-reaching consequences. Floods, droughts and windstorms account for almost 90 per cent of the 1,000 most disastrous events since 1990.”
6. Various shots, GA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Issues of water and disaster resilience - are so intimately related that it is impossible to think of one without the other. Yet too often we do, by thinking in silos and responding in fragmented ways. It is time to close these conceptual and operational gaps.”
8. Wide shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan:
“There is no topic of greater importance to our common future than water, nor one with deeper links to our common humanity.”
10. Various shots, Nahurito walks away
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting on the links between water management and disaster risk reduction today, stressing that floods, droughts and cyclones have caused more than $1 trillion in damages and affected over 4 billion people since 1990.
The Secretary-General, addressing the second meeting convened as part of the UN High-Level Water and Sanitation Days 2015, a set of coordinated events taking place from 18 to 20 November at UN Headquarters in New York, said “too little water at the times when it is needed most can mean drought and food insecurity” while “too much water – in the form of floods, storms or waves – can devastate entire cities, rich or poor.”
Contaminated water, he said “whether from human or industrial sources, is claiming the lives of children and affecting the health of communities worldwide, with far-reaching consequences,” while “floods, droughts and windstorms account for almost 90 per cent of the 1,000 most disastrous events since 1990.”
Ban said “issues of water and disaster resilience are so intimately related that it is impossible to think of one without the other.”
Also addressing the meeting was Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan. In his keynote speech he said “there is no topic of greater importance to our common future than water, nor one with deeper links to our common humanity.”
Today’s meeting comes just 12 days before the opening of the UN climate change conference, widely known as COP21, in Paris, where world leaders will strive to develop a plan to mitigate global warming and its concomitant effects, which scientists say will include more devastating droughts, catastrophic flooding and destructive cyclones.
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