The world needs a more inclusive, integrated and innovative way of addressing the issue of water scarcity, which already threatens as many as 3.2 billion people living in vulnerable rural communities, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today. “We need solutions that tackle both the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of the interlinked problems of poverty, food, water and climate,” Qu said in a video message to a high-level roundtable at the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The World Water Forum is the worl…

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