XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  Introduction   Clean water supply and proper sanitation are fundamental essentials that impact the overall health, hygiene, and life expectancy of people. Even after the criticality, ensuring society has access to these necessities still proves to be a challenge in many parts of the world. Access to safe and clean water has a cascading impact much further than just hygiene. Better hygiene ensures a reduction in poverty as the money currently spent on health issues can be rerouted to provide for jobs and thus creating a sustainable ecosystem. Nearly 33% of the world population (2.5 billion people) do not have access to adequate sanitation. Improper sanitation can lead to many diseases like diarrhea, especially in children, and nearly 1.7 billion children report diarrhea every year and it is the main reason for malnutrition among children below five years. Diarrhea is the second highest cause of the death of children below five years and a significant reason for diarrhea is th...

 Authors: Aarushi A BJ2001, Debarpan Musib BJ20015, Sirisha Kolapalli BJ20024, Pranav D Kuriakose BJ20035, Rajit Das BJ20040, Swatik Pattnaik BJ20055.  It is imperative to realize that the world is in dire need of transformation. One could not have possibly fathomed a pandemic so vast and widespread in nature. The need for sustainability is far more pronounced now than ever before. With a similar vision in mind, the United Nations General Assembly had developed, back in 2015, a collection of 17 interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that served as a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” [i] . These are the successors to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are aimed to be achieved by 2030. Occupying the 6 th number in this list, “Clean Water and Sanitation”, is a crucial goal that lies as a top agenda for most nations, especially the developing ones [ii] . There is a widespread issue of water scarcity and is closely associated ...