Africa and Asia are most severely affected by water issues, Jacob Zuma says
Only 147 countries have met the drinking water targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and 95 have met the sanitation target. Just 77 have met both. President Jacob Zuma delivered the official address at the World Water Day Summit and Expo at Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre on Wednesday. The three-day conference also marked the launch of the 2017 UN World Water Development Report — titled Wastewater: The Untapped Resource — which was handed over to Zuma. Zuma‚ who sits on the UN’s World Water Assessment Programme’s High Level Panel on Water‚ told delegates that the bleak global picture presented in the report required world leaders to urgently prioritise the improvement of access to essential water and sanitation services. He said the statistics did not adequately convey "the development and health challenges faced by so many people"‚ or properly contextualise "how unevenly these basic services are distributed around the world and within societ...
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