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Clean Water & Sanitation
UN Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Episode 1 of 'The 17' gives a great overview of the scale of challenge around the world when it comes to water and sanitation, and what we can all do to help. Did you know that over 85% of the world's wetlands have been lost? Or that over 700 million people live in countries with high or critical levels of water stress. But water isn't just a problem for people in other countries. Remember recent droughts, empty reservoirs and hosepipe bans here in the UK? What about the much publicised and criticised sewage releases into seas and rivers due to storm overflows? Sustainable clean water and sanitation is a global problem felt locally. We all need to understand the situation and take action in our own lives to make a difference.
An influential expert with a big picture view
Niki Roach knows her water. A former President of CIWEM (the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management), she hosts the UK's No.1 Earth Sciences podcast 'Planet Possible' and gets to speak to experts at the cutting edge of water, climate and environmental issues around the world. Plus, she's backing her insights with action, by building an eco home for her family that will harvest rainwater to use for toilets and the washing machine. In this episode Niki shares her thoughts and experiences, plus she comments on the global progress made at the recent COPS for climate and biodiversity. Niki presents her wish list for actions at a global, national, regional and individual level that would help us move toward meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 - clean water & sanitation for all.
Niki wants everyone to value water and she challenges governments, regions and businesses to take action now to make it easy for everyone to make the kind of positive choices that will make a difference:
"It shouldn't be harder, it shouldn't be more expensive, it shouldn't be complicated to make a good choice for the planet." - Niki Roach.
Each episode of 'The 17' ends with our influential expert guest giving us all their Stop/Start - one thing we can all stop doing and one thing we can all start doing right now to help move the planet toward meeting the UN Sustainable Development goal that is the theme of that episode.
Niki's clean water and sanitation 'Stop' relates to our toilets. Do you know the 3 things that should be the ONLY 3 things that ever go down there? And the 'Start' is a minimal effort DIY project based on insights from industry leading flood management theory.
Yorkshire's ambition to lead on Sustainability
Both guest Niki Roach and host Kate Hutchinson live in Yorkshire and they sense that the county is keen to take pride in being a leading regional voice on sustainability. Niki describes the innovative work being done by the 'Living With Water' project in Hull and Kate highlights the positive reaction that the announcement of Yorkshire Sustainability Week has received, especially from Leeds Climate Commission.
The first ever Yorkshire Sustainability Week takes place this coming July and will have an in-person conference as its centrepiece featuring keynote speakers such as Greenpeace's Areeba Hamid. Go to www.yorkshiresustainabilityweek.com to find out more and get your tickets.
Be informed, take action and spread the word
'The 17' is a podcast dedicated to sustainability. It is structured around the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development goals. They represent, in essence, a plan to save the planet. We all need to know what they are, take reasonable positive actions in our own lives to help... and spread the word.
Keep listening to 'The 17' to make sure you are informed and hear from influential experts what actions to take. A new episode drops every month - on the 17th of course - and each episode is themed around a different one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development goals. Listen every month, subscribe, leave reviews and tell your friends.
Resources
Listen to the UK's Number 1 Earth Sciences podcast, 'Planet Possible' that Niki Roach hosts: www.planetpossible.eco
Discover more about the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Find out more about Yorkshire Sustainability Week and book your tickets to the conference: www.yorkshiresustainabilityweek.com
The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.
The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.
Help us grow this podcast. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.
The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk
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By Kate HutchinsonUN Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Episode 1 of 'The 17' gives a great overview of the scale of challenge around the world when it comes to water and sanitation, and what we can all do to help. Did you know that over 85% of the world's wetlands have been lost? Or that over 700 million people live in countries with high or critical levels of water stress. But water isn't just a problem for people in other countries. Remember recent droughts, empty reservoirs and hosepipe bans here in the UK? What about the much publicised and criticised sewage releases into seas and rivers due to storm overflows? Sustainable clean water and sanitation is a global problem felt locally. We all need to understand the situation and take action in our own lives to make a difference.
An influential expert with a big picture view
Niki Roach knows her water. A former President of CIWEM (the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management), she hosts the UK's No.1 Earth Sciences podcast 'Planet Possible' and gets to speak to experts at the cutting edge of water, climate and environmental issues around the world. Plus, she's backing her insights with action, by building an eco home for her family that will harvest rainwater to use for toilets and the washing machine. In this episode Niki shares her thoughts and experiences, plus she comments on the global progress made at the recent COPS for climate and biodiversity. Niki presents her wish list for actions at a global, national, regional and individual level that would help us move toward meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 - clean water & sanitation for all.
Niki wants everyone to value water and she challenges governments, regions and businesses to take action now to make it easy for everyone to make the kind of positive choices that will make a difference:
"It shouldn't be harder, it shouldn't be more expensive, it shouldn't be complicated to make a good choice for the planet." - Niki Roach.
Each episode of 'The 17' ends with our influential expert guest giving us all their Stop/Start - one thing we can all stop doing and one thing we can all start doing right now to help move the planet toward meeting the UN Sustainable Development goal that is the theme of that episode.
Niki's clean water and sanitation 'Stop' relates to our toilets. Do you know the 3 things that should be the ONLY 3 things that ever go down there? And the 'Start' is a minimal effort DIY project based on insights from industry leading flood management theory.
Yorkshire's ambition to lead on Sustainability
Both guest Niki Roach and host Kate Hutchinson live in Yorkshire and they sense that the county is keen to take pride in being a leading regional voice on sustainability. Niki describes the innovative work being done by the 'Living With Water' project in Hull and Kate highlights the positive reaction that the announcement of Yorkshire Sustainability Week has received, especially from Leeds Climate Commission.
The first ever Yorkshire Sustainability Week takes place this coming July and will have an in-person conference as its centrepiece featuring keynote speakers such as Greenpeace's Areeba Hamid. Go to www.yorkshiresustainabilityweek.com to find out more and get your tickets.
Be informed, take action and spread the word
'The 17' is a podcast dedicated to sustainability. It is structured around the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development goals. They represent, in essence, a plan to save the planet. We all need to know what they are, take reasonable positive actions in our own lives to help... and spread the word.
Keep listening to 'The 17' to make sure you are informed and hear from influential experts what actions to take. A new episode drops every month - on the 17th of course - and each episode is themed around a different one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development goals. Listen every month, subscribe, leave reviews and tell your friends.
Resources
Listen to the UK's Number 1 Earth Sciences podcast, 'Planet Possible' that Niki Roach hosts: www.planetpossible.eco
Discover more about the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Find out more about Yorkshire Sustainability Week and book your tickets to the conference: www.yorkshiresustainabilityweek.com
The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.
The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.
Help us grow this podcast. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.
The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk