[Music] sustainable development goal six ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation by 2030 achieve [Music] what is the goal if not a promise and what is our promise worth if we do not keep it water our most precious resource only 0.5% of the Earth's water is readily available for human consumption yet we live in a world of unquenchable thirst where every nation was drink from the same well today 40 percent of the world's people are affected by water scarcity climate change one of the greatest challenges of our time is accelerating catastrophic water events
at an unprecedented rate shocks of droughts and deluge unleash their devastation while population growth increases demand for water food and energy rivers dry up a new longer reach to see today our promise is at risk we as the heads of state and government of the high-level panel on water have three calls to action turn it off turn it on turn it off the first turn of our denial of a global water crisis turn off that faucet and turn off the waste turn off pollution and destruction of our watersheds turn off the bacteria that harm our
children turn off the path to fetching water turn to a path to education next we need to turn it on turn on solutions turn on ideas turn on innovation turn on investments in infrastructure sanitation ecosystems management and resilience turn on our political will to make the hard decisions about how we understand value and manage water turn off the urgency turn off the volume on the water dialog son of the intensity to keep our water promises turn up the heat on those who misuse water turn of the funding to finance universal access to water some of
the value we place on water this is our defining moment water has forced itself to center stage the you and water action decade has begun the world urgently needs us to keep our promise we must all take action do you value water then join us turn it off turn it on turn it off
