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The report finds that rising demand for minerals used in electric vehicles, renewable energy and digital infrastructure is driving significant water use, pollution and health risks — with impacts falling disproportionately on vulnerable communities. In 2024, global lithium production consumed an estimated 456 billion litres of water, equival...

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The report outlines findings from WHO’s global programme to assess household water treatment products, which are independently tested against WHO health-based performance criteria and classified according to their ability to remove microbial contaminants from drinking water. Household water treatment and safe storage remain an important publ...

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The campaign, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), highlights that health care-associated infections remain a daily threat to patients and health workers worldwide. It emphasizes that improved hand hygiene and IPC measures are among the most effective and cost-efficient ways to enhance patient safety, quality of care and health outcom...

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The Congress is organized by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) in partnership with the Water Resources Authority of Jamaica. Under the theme “Resilient Islands: Securing Water for Sustainable Development in a Changing World”, the event will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and creative professionals ...

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What is the 2023 Data Drive and why is it happening? Since the adoption of the SDGs in 2015, there have been at least three rounds of global data compilation for all of the 12 SDG 6 indicators. For ten of the indicators, there are sufficient country data to produce reliable global baselines, but for two of them, sufficient country data are s...

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