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The sovereign pontiff encouraged the start of the summit on water in New York by expressing his wishes for a better sharing of water.
Pope Francis has called for better management and preservation of the planet’s water resources, a challenge at the heart of a conference which opens on Wednesday in New York. “I pray for a good result of the worksof the conference andI hope that this important event can accelerate initiatives in favor of those who suffer from the lack of water, this essential resourcethe pope said during Wednesday’s audience at the Vatican. “Water should not be wasted or misused, nor be the reason for wars, but should be preserved for us and future generations“, he added.
Unpublished event
The United Nations conference on water, unprecedented for nearly half a century, is to bring together some 6,500 participants, including a hundred ministers and a dozen heads of state and government, called upon to come up with concrete commitments. .
In a report published on this occasion, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres castigated consumption patterns that are in the process of “to exhaust, drop by drop, this source of life for humanity“.
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