Thursday, November 21, 2013
Catarina
de
Albuquerque,
UN
Special
Rapporteur
on
the
right
to
safe
drinking
water
and
sanitation,
will
participate
in
a
virtual
public
lecture
and
live
panel
event
titled The
right
to
WaSH;
the
right
to
health on
Monday
November
25.
The
event
is
part
of
the
Another
Drop
lecture
series
hosted
by
the
UN
University
Institute
for
Water,
Environment
and
Health
at
the
McMaster
Innovation
Park
in
Hamilton.
The
event
is
part
of
an
international
working
symposium
supported
by
the
University
of
Waterloo’s Water
Institute,
United
Nations
University,
McMaster
University,
the
Canadian
Institutes
for
Health
Research,
and
the
Canadian
Consortium
on
Global
Health
Research,
to
address
the
urgent
need
for
innovation
to
deal
with
sustainable
access
to
drinking
water
and
sanitation
around
the
world.
According
to
the
UN,
water
use
has
been
growing
at
more
than
twice
the
rate
of
population
increase
in
the
last
century.
By
2025,
it
is
estimated
that
1800
million
people
will
be
living
in
countries
or
regions
with
absolute
water
scarcity.
Yet
almost
one
third
of
the
population
do
not
have
adequate
access
to
drinking
water
and
sanitation
and
1600
children
under
the
age
of
five
die
unnecessarily
every
day
from
diarrhea.