Ensure everyone has safe, affordable water.

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SDG 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

How this Goal works as a Guide for our work

We bring clean water through boreholes, tanks and safe storage.

How GIS supports our work

Map where water is lacking and how far families walk.

6.1

By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

Ensure everyone has safe, affordable water.

We bring clean water through boreholes, tanks and safe storage.

Map where water is lacking and how far families walk.

6.2

By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation.

Provide proper toilets and hygiene for all.

We improve school and home hygiene with toilets, handwashing and deworming.

Map sanitation coverage to plan new facilities.

6.3

By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimising hazardous chemicals, halving untreated wastewater and increasing recycling and safe reuse.

Reduce water pollution and treat wastewater safely.

We promote clean water and safe waste disposal.

Use Earth observation to track pollution and unsafe water bodies.

6.4

By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency and ensure sustainable withdrawals to address scarcity.

Use water efficiently to address scarcity.

We train communities to manage water carefully.

Monitor rainfall and groundwater change to plan for drought.

6.5

By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation.

Manage water in a coordinated, fair way.

We bring villages together to manage shared sources.

Integrate cross-area data to support fair management.

6.6

By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.

Protect rivers, wetlands, forests and aquifers.

We restore sources through trees and sustainable land use.

Monitor forest cover, wetlands and rivers with EO.

6.A

By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water and sanitation.

Expand cooperation to improve water and sanitation.

We build partnerships to improve WASH in rural areas.

Provide evidence for decisions and impact to partners.

6.B

Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management.

Involve communities directly in water and sanitation.

We train communities to maintain water points and manage hygiene.

Community GIS maps water points and reports functionality.