Shakira A SDG Timeline by AduOppong, Shakira

Goal #6

s2231327 — 2025-08-21 13:35:12 UTC

Goal #6 is to promote clean water and sanitation to communities in need of it. This interested me because I feel like it gets overlooked a lot when people talk about needs that other people don't have. They mainly first go for food or shelter but not really towards clean water

Water and Sanitation

s2231327 — 2025-08-21 14:42:19 UTC

Having clean water and sanitation is critically vital to humanity since it helps to prevent the spread of disease. According to WHO they usually refer to this as WASH. Drinking unsafe water combined with little to no sanitation can cause diseases and diarrhea.

COVID-19

s2231327 — 2025-08-21 14:57:56 UTC

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused many people to lose their access to clean water

Why is this Important?

s2231327 — 2025-08-21 15:21:11 UTC

It is important because this affects 3 main topics. Poverty reduction, Climate Change, and Human Rights. This can help to reduce poverty because without clean water, communities are unable to maintain good hygiene practices, which can lead to increased illness, decreased productivity, and higher healthcare costs. By helping them they not only reduce the chance of having to pay for healthcare like hospital visits and medicine but they also lead healthier lives. This can affect climate change because climate change is already exacerbating water scarcity and affecting water quality in many regions. By enhancing water quality we not only help those in need but also push back climate change as well. This also affects human rights because as human beings it is our right to have good water and access to proper sanitation. On top of that in many countries women and girls are gravely affected by the lack of clean water and sanitation. They often bear the responsibility of collecting water for their families, which can be time-consuming and physically demanding.

Clean Water Ted Talk

s2231327 — 2025-08-21 23:31:43 UTC

This Ted Talk dives deeper into the meaning behind Goal #6 and its importance to not only the UN but the whole word

Countries with the least access to clean water

s2231327 — 2025-08-22 18:05:11 UTC

This article gives an overview of the countries most affected by this cause

COVID-19 Affecting water and sanitation access

s2231327 — 2025-08-22 18:10:00 UTC

Proposed Topic

s2231327 — 2025-08-22 18:54:49 UTC

I think I want to research Clean Water and Sanitation which must be addressed to reach SDG #6. I will focus on Africa as a whole (mainly the horn of Africa) as well as Southern Asia. I will also focus on the solutions that people had to combat this problem

Clean Water in Tech

s2231327 — 2025-08-26 15:53:17 UTC

This article lists around 7 popular ways to combat clean water shortages and produce cleaner water to communities in need using technology/

Research Question #1

s2231327 — 2025-08-26 23:58:02 UTC

Why is it that some countries has access to clean water and other countries either have trouble accessing it or don't have it at all?

Clean Water in Africa

s2231327 — 2025-08-28 14:01:06 UTC

This article shows 13 reasons why Africa's water situation is extremely grave. It lists things like how Africa is a dry continent, how climate change affects them etc.

Clean Water in Southern Asia

s2231327 — 2025-08-28 14:06:26 UTC

This article shows the drastic contrast from northern Asia with countries like Japan and China having the world's most cleanest water but once you go down south to countries like India, it is drastically different

Research Question #2

s2231327 — 2025-08-28 14:10:23 UTC

Why do countries in the same region have completely different access to clean water? Why should one region have better water and another worse?

What Are the Effects of not having Clean Water?

s2231327 — 2025-08-29 00:49:39 UTC

Some long term effects of not having clean water are deadly diseases like cholera, typhoid, and diarrhea. These can also lead to the need for healthcare which in turn drives up the cost for healthcare and medicine to treat these diseases. On top of that in many countries girls and women are the ones who normally go out to look for water. If there is a shortage of actual clean drinking water it means these women and girls would have to travel extremely far to find any. This can be taxing for them.

Clean Water in Europe

s2231327 — 2025-08-29 01:21:44 UTC

This article shows how the different countries of Europe battle with clean water. It also explains how Europe views this as a basic human right and what they have done to try and solve said problem.

What would the world look like if everyone had access to Clean water and Sanitation?

s2231327 — 2025-09-04 15:11:53 UTC

In this article it talks about what the world could look like if everyone had their fair share of clean water. According to the article if such an achievement were to occur it would show how diseases like cholera would decrease significantly and how people might even grow resistant to such waterborne diseases. Populations would flourish and billions of money wouldn't be spent on people trying to get medicine.

s2231327 — 2025-09-04 15:17:29 UTC

I was wondering that since we can already see how bad it is when people don't have enough clean water what would it look if people did.

Africa's Water problem

s2231327 — 2025-09-04 15:18:41 UTC

Africa's battle with clean water isn't that its just not clean. It's not enough. The small amount that they do have also isn't clean nor reliable. Climate Change is the leading cause for this as well as the fact that Africa is an extremely hot continent and so are its countries. There is also the mismanagement of their water by their governments as well.