Goal 6

Written By Michale Glennon

This improvised felted bag is a visualization of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. It shows, relative to the size of the bag, the proportion of world population projected to lack access to safely managed drinking water (green, 19%), sanitation (dark orange, 33%), and basic hand hygiene facilities (light orange, 22%) by 2030.  Made for World Water Day 2023, the theme of which was accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.

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Creator: Michale Glennon

Michale Glennon

Michale Glennon serves as the Senior Research Scientist of the Paul Smith's College Adirondack Watershed Institute. She is interested in the effects of land use management on wildlife populations in the Adirondacks and is engaged in research ranging from issues of residential development to recreation ecology to climate change. She is an ecologist and previously spent 15 years as the Director of Science for the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. At AWI, Michale works to support and help shape the scientific research program, provide high quality research opportunities for students, and distribute and champion AWI's work in order to enhance the use of science in the management and stewardship of the natural resources of the Adirondack Park.

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