UNSDG #6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in and there is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, millions of people including children die every year from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

Water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. At the current time, more than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. Drought in specific afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition. Fortunately, there has been great progress made in the past decade regarding drinking sources and sanitation, whereby over 90% of the world’s population now has access to improved sources of drinking water.

To improve sanitation and access to drinking water, there needs to be increased investment in management of freshwater ecosystems and sanitation facilities on a local level in several developing countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia.
UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2022
Wednesday, April 27th
9:55 AM

Clean Water Filter

Fredy An '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Eddie Gutierrez '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Alonso Roman '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Einsey Socrates '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal that our group has chosen is #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Water is vital to human survival. Unfortunately, throughout certain areas of the world, water sources have been contaminated making it difficult for humans to consume. This has occurred in the US, where a major substance that has been polluting the water is ... Read More

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

10:20 AM

Clean water access in different areas in the world

Manya Davis '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Madhav Hota '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Madison McTaggart '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Large quantities of water are used worldwide, but some places have more access to clean water than others. Whether or not a particular region has access to clean water affects the people there quite greatly. This study looks into the availability of clean water to different regions around the world, as well as how this access or lack thereof ... Read More

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Clean Water in Illinois

Winston Mattson '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Michael Doerries '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Raghav Sinha '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Karla Sanchez '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Illinois resides within a developed nation, yet it still retains places that do not have access to clean, usable water. Often, this problem goes unseen as citizens outside those areas believe all are so lucky to have this necessary commodity. Even so, the actions from these citizens, whether tacitly or explicitly, negatively impacts the decreasing abundance of clean water ... Read More

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Conserve

Nathan Landig '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Jackson Rudd '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Aditya Prashanth '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Albert Han '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Conserve is a water preservation and quality measuring device that can be easily added or screwed on to shower-heads, sinks faucets, and numerous other sources of water. It will display the amount of gallons used in a day/run and the alkalinity of the water that is being used. This will all be displayed through a screen extrusion, a part ... Read More

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Wells Go Deeper

Taegeon Eom '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Justina Kostiv '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Pranav Pabbisetty '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

We believe that everyone deserves access to clean water resources. Unfortunately, worldwide nearly 1.1 billion people do not have access to it. UN SDG 6 is focused on clear water and sanitation, so our group has decided to focus on this for our service. More specifically, farmers across the world have limited access to water sources and therefore cannot ... Read More

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM