un water website publications wwdr2024From the UN World Water Development Report 2024 webpage:
"When water is scarce, polluted or difficult to access, food security can be undermined, livelihoods lost, and conflict can follow." "In an unstable world where security threats are growing, we must all recognize that ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all – the aim of Sustainable Development Goal 6 – is essential for global prosperity and peace."

On this Waternet website, we argue that securitisation of water itself is a major threat to real security and development. Read more about it in our article on 'security' as a threat to development in the Nile River Basin.