The UN Global Goal: Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

One in three people live without sanitation. This is causing unnecessary disease and death. Although huge strides have been made with access to clean drinking water, lack of sanitation is undermining these advances. If we provide affordable equipment and education in hygiene practices, we can stop this senseless suffering and loss of life.

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The Goal of Clean Water and Sanitation has 8 targets:

• Safe and affordable drinking water
• End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene
• Improve water quality, wastewater treatment and safe reuse
• Increase water-use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
• Implement integrated water resources management
• Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
• Expand water and sanitation support to developing countries
• Support local engagement in water and sanitation management

Source: UNDP

Teaching Ideas:​​

• Watch The Future of Water or Blue Planet II (both currently available on Netflix), or Transforming Lives Through the Power of Clean Water (see video below)
• Watch The Water Brothers on TVO
• Read Clean Water and Sanitation: Why it Matters
• Download the Sustainable Development Goals app to learn more about Clean Water and Sanitation and join or create an action
• Join a Fresh Water Alliance campaign
• Join the Junior Water Walkers to protect a body of water near you
• ​View the Blue Gold: Our Lakes, Our Lives Google Voyager story
• Learn about your local water and sanitation systems
• Calculate your plastic pollution
• Watch the CleanSeas Breakup PSA (see below) and write your own breakup letter to plastic or make your own PSA video
• Keep a plastic log for a day and track all of the plastic you use and throw away
• Read The Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrome and learn about Autumn Peltier, Water Activist
• Learn about Garbage Patches
• Watch the mockumentary – The Majestic Plastic Bag​

Resources:​​

• https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/
• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg6
• www.globalgoals.org/6-clean-water-and-sanitation

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Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation - SDG Tracker

The UN explains: "Clean water is a basic human need, and one that should be easily accessible to all. There is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to poor infrastructure, investment and planning, every year millions of people - most of them children - die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene."

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The Challenges

Here are the challenges for this month! 

Download a poster with November's challenges below

Tweet your students in action completing the challenges @changemakeclass