 This year's World Food Day celebrated one of the planet's most precious resources, water. Water is essential to life and livelihood by reducing hunger and poverty and achieving all SDGs. The climate crisis, population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and social economic development are putting increasing pressure on water resources. Increased extreme weather events, drought and flooding are stressing our ecosystems with daunting consequences on global food security. Today, more than one-third of the world's population are still living without access to safe water. Smallholder farmers, particularly women, use indigenous peoples, migrants, and refugees are the most vulnerable. We must harness the power of the science, innovation, data, and technology to produce more with less. To make every job count, all of us must consume and manage the water more efficiently. Agriculture is the largest consumer of the world's freshwater resources, accounting for 70 percent of the consumption. We must transform global ecosystems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable to effectively address the water scarcity challenges we are facing. Dear friends, water scarcity is a global challenge that needs a global response. Flood is a disaster that takes a few minutes to wash away everything. What pollution is making the situation worse? On this World Food Day, I ask each and every one of us to renew our collective commitment, take the concrete actions to improve the situation, ensuring global water security is fundamental to achieving 2030 agenda. Together, we can drive water action by transforming our ecosystem through the four betters, better production, better nutrition, a better environment, a better life. Leaving no one behind. And thank you.