There is a global water crisis happening now. Over 8.5 million people do not have access to safe, clean water, while billions of people have no access to clean sanitation. Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has travelled the globe creating a series calked Water Stories , illustrating the crisis and the people involved. The Royal Botanical Garden in Sydney will feature some of these photos that do an this crisis across several countries and continents around the world.

Key Takeaways:

• Almost 1 billion people live without access to safe water and over 2.5 billion people lack the most basic sanitation in their lives – having huge detrimental impacts on global economy.
• Mustafah Abdulaziz took on a photo series project called “Water Stories” to document the effects of a lack of water on people in different countries across the world.
• Lack of water supply is often linked in these third-world countries to unstable political situations.

“Water is one of the great challenges of our time. Across the planet we are seeing our fundamental relationship with water called into question… Our future depends on our understanding; water hangs in the balance.”

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/08/16/this-is-what-the-global-water-crisis-looks-like_a_23077638/