CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

what is the aim of SDG 6 ?

• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

• to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

• to ensure sustainable consumption and production patters

what percentage of the world's water is potable?

• less than 3 percent

• about 20 percent

• more than half

Answer explanation

Two thirds of the water, which just under 3 percent is fresh water and 97 percent is salt water (in seas and oceans). however, large parts of he fresh water are bounds as ice at the poles, glaciers and in permafrost soils. only about 0.3 percent of the water on earth can be used as potable water.

Natural freshwater can be acquired from _

• glaciers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and groundwater

• glaciers, ponds, estuaries and sea

• wetlands, irrigation canal, puddle and drains

Which economic sector consumes the most water worlwide?

• textile industry

• agriculture

• tourism industry

Clean water can be defined as _

• drinking water

• water that will not harm you if you come in contact with

• water that is safe for all domestic use

• all of the above

Today, how many billion people lack access to safely managed dringking water?

• 7 billion

• 2.2 billion

• 5.8 billion

Answer explanation

Safely managed drinking water services - that is, they used improved water sources located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination.

non-safely managed water service includes requiring to commute within or more than 30 minutes to locate water, be it from improved or unprotected source.

Today, more than how many people lack safely managed sanitation?

• 4.2 billion

• 4.1 billion

• 4.0 billion

Sanitation is particularly important for?

• helping to maintain health and increase life-spans

• protect children from preventable disease

• capitalists can monopolise the water management industry

Having less access to improved source of drinking only persists in rural area.

• true

• false

Answer explanation

in towns and cities where people living in low-income, informal or illegal settlements usually have less access to improved source of drinking-water than other residents.

What are the factors of having less access to improved soures of water?

• sharp geographics

• sociocultural inequalities

• economic inequalities

• all of the above