Youth and Water Security in Africa
Abstract
The sustenance of life through nutrition, health maintenance and provision of
support infrastructure across many social-economic as well as environmental
sectors has clean water availability and affordability requirements. Water security
is inherent in the targets of both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Africa Agenda 2063.
Meeting of water quantity and quality needs is challenging in many regions due
to rapidly growing population, high urbanization rates and industrial expansion in
sectors such as agriculture, construction and manufacturing. As an illustration,
the medium projection of Africa’s 2030 population by the UN is 1.68 billion people,
compared to 1.19 billion people in 2015.
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