So much so, that the availability of clean water and its sanitation is the Sustainable Development Objective number 6 Within the 2030 Agenda to transform our world.
In addition, this World Water Day is celebrated within the framework of the International Year of glaciers conservation, to sensitize world public opinion about the fundamental role that these resources play together with snow and ice in the climatic system and the hydrological cycle.
And it is that with the increase in global temperature, The speed at which the thaw of these glaciers is produced is increasing. The loss of glacial mass and the reduction of the cryquosphere, where water in solid state is found due to low temperatures, are some of the examples of the undeniable trace of climate change.
Its melting implies a Lower availability of water resourcesespecially drinking water for agricultural, industrial or clean energy production, and will significantly affect coastal regions and those that are seasonally dry. He Water cycle will be increasingly unpredictablewith river floods, droughts, landslides or rises of sea level that have serious consequences for the inhabitants of certain areas, their natural ecosystems and their biodiversity.
Spain is one of the countries that presents the most vulnerability to climate changeas they show increasingly intense meteorological episodes such as the DANA of Valencia and other communities at the end of 2024, or the periods of drought in Catalonia and in the south. Besides, 75% of the Spanish territory is at risk of desertification, And our Pyrenean glaciers have lost up to 63 hectares of ice since 2011, from 24 to only 15 glaciers that could disappear in just 15 years.
Therefore, and as they defend the United Nations, it is essential materialize a real commitment to mitigate the effects of climate change wherever it is more necessary And, for this, they have defined 3 basic lines of action: the reduction of carbon emissions, the sustainable management of thawing water and adaptation to glacier setback through local actions.