{"id":57885,"date":"2022-08-26T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=57885"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:26:42","slug":"un-highlights-invisible-value-of-groundwater-during-world-water-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/un-highlights-invisible-value-of-groundwater-during-world-water-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UN highlights \u2018invisible\u2019 value of groundwater during World Water Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Catherine Ageno<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations has asked countries to ensure groundwater has its rightful place in all of their action plans.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0United Nations World Water Development Report 2022, groundwater accounts for 99 percent of all liquid freshwater on Earth.<\/p>\n

However, this natural resource is poorly understood and consequently undervalued and mismanaged.<\/p>\n

In a video message to an online session titled \u201cGroundwater: Making the invisible visible,\u201d\u00a0Gilbert Houngbo, the Chair of\u00a0UN-Water, underscores the need for policymakers to understand groundwater\u2019s critical role and better manage the competing demands of water and sanitation systems, agriculture, industry, ecosystems and climate change adaptation<\/p>\n

Houngbo, who is also President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), warns that ground water which sustains drinking water supplies, sanitation systems, farms, industries and ecosystems is being overused, polluted and neglected.<\/p>\n

World Water Week 2022 \u2013 taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, from 23 August to 1 September \u2013 features many discussions, both online and in person, under the theme: \u201cSeeing the Unseen: The Value of Water\u201d.<\/p>\n

The primary aim of the Conference is to raise awareness of the global water crisis and decide on a concerted action to achieve the internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those contained in\u00a0the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Catherine Ageno The United Nations has asked countries to ensure groundwater has its rightful place in all of their action plans. According to the\u00a0United Nations World Water Development Report 2022, groundwater accounts for 99 percent of all liquid freshwater on Earth. However, this natural resource is poorly understood and consequently undervalued and mismanaged. In a video message to an online session titled \u201cGroundwater: Making the invisible visible,\u201d\u00a0Gilbert Houngbo, the Chair of\u00a0UN-Water, underscores the need for policymakers to understand groundwater\u2019s critical role and better manage the competing demands of water and sanitation systems, agriculture, industry, ecosystems and climate change adaptation Houngbo, who is also President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), warns that ground water which sustains drinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}