Emphasize Gender Equality in Water Management Elsewhere

Mar 23, 2026 | The Global New Light of Myanmar
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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Only three per cent of the world’s water is freshwater. However, 2.5 per cent of all the world’s water is locked in glaciers, ice-capped polar areas, the atmosphere, and soil, making it directly unusable. In addition, some of this water is either too polluted to use or too costly to extract. Therefore, only 0.5 per cent of the world’s total water resources are usable freshwater for human consumption.

While climate change is threatening both the quantity and quality of freshwater, people in many countries around the world are facing difficulties in accessing reliable support for freshwater availability in numerous areas. In reality, there are very few effective approaches to address issues related to population growth and migration. Only through the implementation of broad-based assistance and practical solutions to water demand can the challenges facing humanity be overcome and alleviated.