LEPP Lunch & Learn WWD

What does SDG 6 aim to achieve by 2030?

• Conserve and sustainably use the world's oceans, sea and marine resources

• Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems

• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all

• Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Answer explanation

Yes! We aim to provide clean water access and availability to EVERYONE around the world by 2030.

Sounds ambitious? Not really when it is a basic human need!

Water is essential not only to health, but also to poverty reduction, food security, ecosystems and education.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

As water becomes more scarce and stretched, its ability to support progress in several of the SDGs, particularly on poverty, hunger, sustainability and the environment, is being reduced.

Over the past 300 years, over ___ of Earth's wetlands have been lost.

• 20%

• 40%

• 65%

• 85%

There are roughly 8 billion people in the world today. How many people don’t have access to clean water? (World Health Organization and UNICEF, 2021)

• 1.2 million

• 800 million

• 1.2 billion

• 2.2 billion

Answer explanation

Still, two billion people live without safely managed drinking water services, including 1.2 billion people lacking even a basic level of service, in 2020.

Which of these diseases are transmitted through contaminated water?

• Malaria

• Dengue

• Cholera

• All of the above

Answer explanation

You can play your part to reduce these risks by properly disposing your rubbish and participating in local beach clean up days!

95% of Melbourne's mains water each year becomes wastewater or sewage. What percentage of this wastewater gets recycled or reused each year?

• 30%

• 17%

• 8.5%

• 1.5%

Answer explanation

Only 266 million litres of Melbourne's wastewater gets recycled for reuse each year!!!

What percentage of all water withdrawal are used by agriculture?

(UN-Water, 2021)

• 50%

• 68%

• 72%

• 80%

Answer explanation

72% of our world's water goes to agriculture

16% by municipalities to households and services

12% to industries.

What percentage of schools around the world lack handwashing facilities with water and soap?

• 32%

• 40%

• 47%

• 56%

Answer explanation

As of March 2020, 47% of schools worldwide lacked a handwashing facility with water and soap - affecting approximately 900 million school-age children – and at least one-third of schools did not have available spaces for children to wash their hands at all.

Is Melbourne's tap water safe to drink?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Melbourne's water is some of the world's safest drinking water! We have been able to achieve this through the use of protected catchments.

Already clean water means less treatment required, which means more affordable water!!

Of the 2.5% of freshwater available on Earth, what percentage of this freshwater is actually attainable for human consumption?

• 33.8%

• 21.5%

• 7.8%

• 1.2%

Answer explanation

Only about 2.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater. Of that, only about 1.2% can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or buried deep in the ground! (National Geographic, 2022)