Open AccessScience academy statements on water, health, and science education
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2011eo220004
Subject(s) - sanitation , hygiene , summit , water supply , clean water , business , political science , statement (logic) , economic growth , developing country , environmental health , environmental protection , medicine , geography , engineering , environmental engineering , economics , law , pathology , physical geography , waste management
Several days prior to the Group of 8 (G8) summit of nations on 26–27 May in Deauville, France, science academies from those nations and five others issued joint statements calling for the governments to take actions regarding water and health as well as science education. The water and health statement indicates that nearly 3 billion people will be living in water‐scarce countries by 2050 and that 2.6 billion already lack access to proper sanitation and nearly 900 million lack access to a clean water supply. The statement calls for developing basic infrastructure for sanitation, promoting education to change the behavior of populations regarding water supply, funding research and development to identify pathogens, and improving water management and hygiene standards, among other measures.