SDG 6 Target 6 3 What is SDG

SDG 6: Target 6. 3

What is SDG #? “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. ”

What is Target 6. 3? IMPROVE WATER QUALITY, WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SAFE REUSE “By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally. ”

“ 1. 8 billion People use a source of drinking water contaminated with feces, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. ” WHO/UNICEF 2015

How Can We Track Progress on Target 6. 3? Indicator(s) 6. 3. 1, 6. 3. 2

Indicator 6. 3. 1 : Proportion of wastewater safely treated Possible Metric: ● Treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater

Indicator 6. 3. 1 Metric: Treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater

“Over 80% of wastewater is released to the environment without adequate treatment. ” UN WWDR 2021

Case Study - Hazardous E-Waste in China Quick Facts ● Highest overall contributor: Asia ● Highest contributors per capita: United States, Europe, Oceana Connection to Water ● Informal recycling centers ● Water contamination

"What they are doing is very crude methods, mostly. They are taking the [circuit boards] and bathing them in an acid bath to get gold or other precious metals and releasing the acid into the water or environment. " -Ruediger Kuehr, United Nations University

Case Study - Hazardous E-Waste in China

Indicator 6. 3. 2: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality Possible Metric: ● Self-reported data from countries

Indicator 6. 3. 2 Metric: Self-reported country data

“ 60% of water bodies assessed in 89 countries have good ambient water quality” UN Water-2021

Case Study - Toxic Water in the Ganges Quick Facts ● Ganges located in Northern India and Bangladesh ● Highly polluted ● Main water source for 400 million people Barriers to Water Treatment ● Restoring water flow ● Climate change ● Finance Consequences of a Polluted River ● Dangerous ● Religious considerations

"If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. No Ganga, no India, " -Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji

Case Study - Toxic Water in the Ganges

How Does Target 6. 3 Relate to Other Targets?

Additional Academic Sources for Further Learning --Quinlivan, Lauren, Deborah V. Chapman, and Timothy Sullivan. "Applying citizen science to monitor for the Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 6. 3. 2: a review. " Environmental monitoring and assessment 192, no. 4 (2020): 1 -11. https: //link. springer. com/article/10. 1007/s 10661 -0208193 -6 ● Explores the importance of citizens in closing knowledge gaps and participating in volunteer projects for progress toward SDG 6. 3. --Zhang, Qiong, Christine Prouty, Julie B. Zimmerman, and James R. Mihelcic. "More than target 6. 3: a systems approach to rethinking sustainable development goals in a resource-scarce world. " Engineering 2, no. 4 (2016): 481 -489. https: //doi. org/10. 3389/fenvs. 2019. 00032 ● Examines the critical role of collaboration between UN agencies, member states, and consumers in achieving SDG 6. 3. --Qadir, Manzoor, Pay Drechsel, Blanca Jiménez Cisneros, Younggy Kim, Amit Pramanik, Praem Mehta, and Oluwabusola Olaniyan. "Global and regional potential of wastewater as a water, nutrient and energy source. " In Natural Resources Forum, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 40 -51. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020. ● Hypothesizes that extracting nutrients from wastewater could contribute to progress toward SDG 6 and all ultimately all of the SDGs by contributing to a green economy.

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