A collaboration between the UN-Water programmes UNW-DPAC, UNW-DPC and WWAP together with UN-HABITAT and UNEP brought together water experts and stakeholders during Stockholm's World Water Week. A seminar to address the challenges and preventive actions to improve water quality, showing how different agents can also provide solutions and response options,.

The world is facing a global water quality crisis. Continuing population growth and urbanisation, rapid industrialisation, and expanding and intensifying food production are all putting pressure on water resources and increasing the unregulated or illegal discharge of contaminated water within and beyond national borders. This presents a global threat to human health and wellbeing, with both immediate and long term consequences for efforts to reduce poverty whilst sustaining the integrity of some of our most productive ecosystems. There are many causes driving this crisis, but it is clear that freshwater and coastal ecosystems across the globe, upon which humanity has depended for millennia, are increasingly threatened. It is equally clear that future demands for water cannot be met unless wastewater management is revolutioniszed.

Watch the video to see how our experts tackled the discussion.

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