Water inequalities
I can explain the importance of UN Global Goal 6: clean water and sanitation.
Water inequalities
I can explain the importance of UN Global Goal 6: clean water and sanitation.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Not all people around the world have access to clean, safe water or wastewater treatment.
- One in three people live without basic sanitation, causing unnecessary disease and death.
- The Global Goals are a plan agreed to by world leaders to build a greener, fairer, better world by 2030.
- The aim of Global Goal 6, is to achieve access to safe water and sanitation for all by 2030.
Keywords
Resource - A resource is anything that can be used for a human need.
Sanitation - Sanitation systems take dirty water and other waste products away.
Global Goals - 17 Global Goals created by the United Nations (UN), designed to be a way of working towards a better and more sustainable future for the world.
Common misconception
That there is nothing we can do to help with water supply problems.
Water is a precious resource everywhere in the world, in all countries. We can all do our bit by using water more carefully and encouraging other people to do the same.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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