Urban planning key to solve sanitation problems - Joan Clos, U.N. Habitat

STOCKHOLM (AlertNet) - Executive director of U.N. Habitat spoke to AlertNet at World Water Week in Stockholm where 2,600 policymakers and humanitarians are meeting to discuss strains on the water infrastructure in a rapidly urbanising world.

By 2050 city dwellers will make up more than 80 percent of the global population, which by that time is expected to expand to 9.3 billion from about 7 billion, according to the Water Integrity Network (WIN) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

"The next phase is to plan the basic enlargement of the city so that it is affordable for emerging economies, Joan Clos, who is also United Nations under-secretary general, said, "We need to come back to basics."

U.N. Habitat analyses patterns and develops plans for controlled human settlement.

Credit: Julie Mollins

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