26% of world’s population does not have safe drinking water

26% of world’s population does not have safe drinking water – 26% of the world’s population does not have safe drinking water and 46% lack access to safely managed sanitation, as per the report published by UNESCO at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York. The global urban population facing water scarcity may double from 930 million in 2016 to 1.7 to 2.4 billion people in 2050. due to the raising incidence of extreme and prolonged droughts.