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The winners of UpLink's Zero Water Waste Challenge offer diverse innovations for addressing this crisis. It keeps us healthy, helps us to grow food, and generates the energy that keeps us warm. There are many ways water keeps us safe and secure. Add them all up, and water's economic value has been priced at approximately US$58 trillion ...
Studies have found that reducing vehicle fleet levels from the equivalent of Euro I to Euro IV can reduce fleet emissions by about 80% and moving up to Euro V standards further reduces the remaining emissions by 80%. This is a great step to remove air pollution and CO2 levels. • Preventing crop burning.
In Asia, the threat from water pollution is pronounced and stakeholders are coming together to take action. In Asia and the Pacific, economies continue to grow, with a regional GDP growth forecast of 4.5% in 2024, this vast region offers pioneering infrastructure, policy and new venture solutions for addressing water pollution worldwide.
But the water crisis is global, and it can be solved only with transformational thinking and new governance. We must recognize that all our key environmental challenges are connected to water – whether there is too much or too little, or whether it is too polluted for human use. The task now is to understand the links between water, climate ...
To make it worse, in middle-income countries like India where water pollution is a bigger problem, the impact increases to a loss of almost half of GDP growth. Another study estimates that being downstream of polluted stretches in India is associated with a 9% reduction in agricultural revenues and a 16% drop in downstream agricultural yields.
The scale of the world’s human waste problem is vast, impacting human health, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems, and even climate change. Solving the problem requires working with communities to develop solutions that suit them, providing access to adequate sanitation and adapting aging sewage systems to a rapidly changing world.
By protecting forests and improving agricultural practices in targeted areas in China, the country can improve water quality. In fact, by targeting conservation strategies to roughly 1.4 million hectares, sediment and nutrient pollution could be measurably reduced – by at least 10% – in these small to medium sized water catchments.
In 2013, Melati and Isabel Wijsen, then aged just 10 and 12, founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags – an NGO with a mission to fight the island’s plastic pollution problem. Today, Bye Bye Plastic Bags is a global movement , with 50 teams around the world educating tens of thousands of schoolchildren about the problems of plastic waste.
The climate crisis is putting global water systems under intense pressure. By 2050, over 5 billion people will live in areas affected by water scarcity. Innovative companies are finding solutions, but more investment is needed. The Zero Water Waste Challenge, part of UpLink and HCL’s Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative, is calling for ...
South Africa. The Jukskei is one of Johannesburg's biggest and most polluted rivers. It is full of toxins from sewage flow. Two women have started a campaign to save it and tackle river pollution by merging art, science and activism. The 'Water for the Future' project is creating jobs and environmental awareness.