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STORY: UN / WATER AND SANITATION
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
16 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) / Chair, UN-Water:
“Water is everywhere. Yes, the oceans cover 70 percent of our planet, but water that is actually usable and available is surprisingly limited: only 0.05 percent of water on earth.”
4. Med shot, photographer
5. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) / Chair, UN-Water:
“We're seeing 2.2 billion people globally, who are still living without safely managed drinking water, and 3.5 billion who live without safely managed sanitation. We need hundreds of millions more taps and toilets, and we also need to stop untreated wastewater being emptied back into nature. The resulting diseases of this like cholera or typhoid kill around 1,000 children under 5 every single day.”
7. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) / Chair, UN-Water:
“On every continent water quality is suffering, water scarcity is worsening. Food systems are straining, and water related disasters are increasing. As climate change pikes and populations grow, our continued abuse and neglect of the entire water cycle is compounding every other challenge we face.”
9. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
10.SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) / Chair, UN-Water:
“To achieve SDG6 will require a sixfold increase in the current global rates of progress on drinking water and a fivefold increase for sanitation. This strategy is designed to maximize the collective strength of the UN system to support countries to make this acceleration happen. For too long, action on water and sanitation has been too slow, too fragmented and too under resourced.”
11. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Properzi, Chief and Technical Lead, UN Water:
“The strategy now, which is the first one we have such a strategy, will provide an overarching like jointly owned framework that all agencies, all country teams can use for joint programming. So, the joint programs at country level are actually the basis of delivery of the UN system according to the Sustainable Development Cooperation frameworks, and so the strategy will be an additional tool in the toolbox of resident coordinators with country teams to work together with the host government.”
13. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Alvaro Lario said, “Water that is actually usable and available is surprisingly limited: only 0.05 percent of water on earth.”
Alvaro Lario together with Federico Properzi, Chief and Technical Lead of UN Water, launched today (16 Jul) the first-ever United Nations system-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation.
Lario said, “We're seeing 2.2 billion people globally, who are still living without safely managed drinking water, and 3.5 billion who live without safely managed sanitation. We need hundreds of millions more taps and toilets, and we also need to stop untreated wastewater being emptied back into nature. The resulting diseases of this like cholera or typhoid kill around 1,000 children under 5 every single day.”
He also said, “On every continent water quality is suffering, water scarcity is worsening. Food systems are straining, and water related disasters are increasing. As climate change pikes and populations grow, our continued abuse and neglect of the entire water cycle is compounding every other challenge we face.”
He continued, “To achieve SDG6 will require a sixfold increase in the current global rates of progress on drinking water and a fivefold increase for sanitation. This strategy is designed to maximize the collective strength of the UN system to support countries to make this acceleration happen. For too long, action on water and sanitation has been too slow, too fragmented and too under resourced.”
Federico Properzi, UN Water Chief and Technical Lead, said, “The strategy now, which is the first one we have such a strategy, will provide an overarching like jointly owned framework that all agencies, all country teams can use for joint programming. So, the joint programs at country level are actually the basis of delivery of the UN system according to the Sustainable Development Cooperation frameworks, and so the strategy will be an additional tool in the toolbox of resident coordinators with country teams to work together with the host government.”
