Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

About Goal 6

Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation, aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This goal strives to provide clean, safe drinking water to everyone while protecting freshwater sources and ecosystems. Despite what some people may think, water availability to not ensured in all areas of Canada, many rural areas experience water shortages or persistent unsafe drinking water.

Learn more about Goal 6

United Nations. (2015, September 17). The Sustainable Development Goals Explained: Clean Water and Sanitation [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/LCKsU4bPFOQ

Resources and Links

Indigenous Services Canada: Ending long-term drinking water advisories
Everyone in Canada should have access to safe, clean drinking water.
Water Canada: Southwestern Nova Scotia struggles with water shortages
In 2018, the municipalities of Argyle, Barrington, and Yarmouth experienced dry wells for several months and needed access to drinking water.
World Health Organization: Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water
Provides policy- and decision-makers at all levels with a reliable, easily accessible and comprehensive analysis of Water Sanitation and Health systems to make informed decisions for sanitation, drinking-water and hygiene.
World Health Organization. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being.

Books

eBook - International water scarcity and variability: Managing resource use across political boundaries by Shlomi Dinar; Ariel Dinar
Demonstrates that there are many examples of and mechanisms for peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change.
Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Changing Environment by J. Selendy (Ed.)
Offers an interdisciplinary guide to the conditions responsible for water and sanitation related diseases.
eBook - Water is life: Women's human rights in national and local water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa by Hellum & Kameri-Mbote (Eds.)
This book approaches water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue.

Key Organizations

Water For People
A global nonprofit that helps people bring clean water and sanitation solutions to their communities
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to achieve better health for all.
World Water Council
The Council focuses on the political dimensions of water security, adaptation and sustainability.