SDG 6 aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. It has various targets including access to clean water, reducing pollution, improving water quality by reducing dumping of hazardous chemicals. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of clean water and sanitation as hand washing is critical to prevent spread but billions lack access. Progress on SDG 6 positively impacts other goals and challenges include financing, data, capacity and innovation.

1. SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENTAL GOAL
NO.6
CLEAN WATER AND SANITIZATION
DR.MEGHANA
GHODAKE

2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• Sustainable development is defined as the development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generation to meet their own needs.
• Sustainable Development is one which satisfies the need of
present without compromising future generation to their own
needs.”
• (the globally accepted definition in 1987 at the world
commission on environment and development)

3. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTAL GOAL
• Highly ambitious goals that leads the world towards
development which is sustainable.
• The SDGs were set in 2015 by the United Nations General
Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
They are included in a UN resolution called the 2030 Agenda.
• The global goal is a collection of 17 interlinked goals and 169
targets came into effect in January 2016 for sustainable
development and are designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a
better and more sustainable future for all”.

4. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 6
TARGETS:
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5. CLEAN WATER:
• Clean water and sanitization should be an important part of public
health care system. Proving clean water and sanitization will help
eliminate diseases. Apart from just elimination of the disease it will
also help to keep population healthy. Hence if SDG 6 is in proper
progress it will positively hamper the progress of other SDGs.
• Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of people, an alarming
figure that is projected to rise as temperatures do. Although 2.1
billion people have improved water sanitation since 1990, dwindling
drinking water supplies are affecting every continent.

6. CLEAN WATER:
• Sustainable management of water resources and access to safe water and sanitation are
essential for unlocking economic growth and productivity, and provide significant leverage for
existing investments in health and education.
• The natural environment e.g. forests, soils and wetlands contributes to management and
regulation of water availability and water quality, strengthening the resilience of watersheds
and complementing investments in physical infrastructure and institutional and regulatory
arrangements for water access, use and disaster preparedness.
• Water shortages undercut food security and the incomes of rural farmers while improving
water management makes national economies, the agriculture and food sectors more resilient
to rainfall variability and able to fulfil the needs of growing population.
• Protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems and their biodiversity can ensure water
purification and water quality standards.

7. SANITIZATION:
It is defined as Maintaining cleanliness and disposal of sewage waste.
According to UNICEF, poor sanitation, lack of clean water as well as hygiene has other
adverse effects on people across the globe. In some developing countries, children especially
girls are mostly denied their right to quality education since the school they attend lack decent
and private sanitation facilities.
In other countries, women spent most of their time fetching water at the expense of other vital
duties that are essential in improving their standard of living

8. Safe sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO is leading efforts
to monitor the global the burden of sanitation-related disease and access to safely
managed sanitation and wastewater treatment and factors that enable or hinder progress
under the Sustainable Development agenda.
WHO supports implementation through guidelines and tools on sanitation and health,
safe use of wastewater and safe recreational water environments, using risk assessment
to identify, prioritize, manage and monitor coordinated action to protect public health.
WHO also coordinates sanitation actions with partners in other health initiatives such as
neglected tropical diseases, cholera, nutrition, infection prevention and control and
antimicrobial resistance.

9. RELATION OF SDG6 WITH OTHER SDGS:

10. CHALLENGES:
1.Financing- Optimized financing is essential to get resources behind country plans.
2.Data and information-Data and information targets resources and measures
progress.
3.Capacity development-A better-skilled workforce improves service levels and
increases job creation and retention in the water sector.
4.Innovation- New, smart practices and technologies will improve water and sanitation
resources management and service delivery.
5.Governance -Collaboration across boundaries and sectors will make SDG 6
everyone’s business.

12. COVID 19 AND SDG6:
The current pandemic, the fate of SDG 6, “Ensure Availability and Sustainable Management of
Water and Sanitation for All” becomes more critical.
The world is facing an unprecedented global threat due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic and its impact on sustainable development prospects are emerging as a matter of concern.
Washing hands is the first line of defense to prevent the spread of COVID-19. According to experts,
washing hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, repeatedly throughout the day, is critical.
However, in many developing countries, the message ignores an important question: What if you
don’t have enough clean water to meet the needs?
It becomes imperative to understand the close nexus between the ongoing pandemic and water
woes of many countries. Globally, three billion people do not have access to even basic hand-
washing facilities at home. Nearly a billion people experience only partial access or regular shutoffs
even when they do have piped water, making frequent hand-washing difficult or impossible.
Lack of access to clean water affects vulnerability to disease and ill health. Handwashing and good
hygiene practices unlock the benefits of water and sanitation services.

13. CONCLUSION:
• Clean water is one of the few things in life.
• Having clean water and sanitization means able to avoid
exposure to countless diseases.
• Poor sanitization and unsafe water cause deaths every year and
it costs low productivity cost every year.