Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the Ninth World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal
These remarks were delivered by World Bank Group President David Malpass at Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the Ninth World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal on March 21, 2022. At the Fragility Forum at the World Bank in early Ma...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/151491648020126767/Remarks-by-World-Bank-Group-President-David-Malpass-at-the-Ninth-World-Water-Forum-in-Dakar-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37772 |
| Summary: | These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass at Remarks by World Bank
Group President David Malpass at the Ninth World Water Forum
in Dakar, Senegal on March 21, 2022. At the Fragility Forum
at the World Bank in early March, we showed that 23
countries, with a combined population of 850 million people,
are facing high, or medium-intensity conflict. Over 300
million people in fragile and conflict settings experienced
acute food insecurity in 2021, and the war in Ukraine is
making shortages and food price spikes even worse. The
COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic reversals in
development outcomes. Indicators of poverty, growth,
nutrition, education, and security are all deteriorating,
rather than improving as is needed for the world to truly
develop. The latest hammer blow is inflation and rising
interest rates. They hit the poor the hardest and make
inequality worse. Today’s world faces other enormous
challenges. The Water Forum today focuses on the importance
of water security for development and peace. Population
growth and increased use of water are creating water
scarcity and intense competition for water. Ongoing climate
change heightens the water crisis, which is starkly evident
in Africa. Only 58 percent of Africans have access to safe
drinking water. Only 10 percent of hydroelectricity
potential is being put to work. Globally, 2 billion people
lack access to safely managed drinking water and over 3.6
billion people lack safely managed sanitation. |
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