Nearly four billion people around the globe experience a severe water crisis every month, Ambassador Gifty Nyarko, the African Ambassador for Inclusive Urban Governance and Climate-Resilient Development has said. She called for a collective approach among global leaders to tackle water scarcity, worrying that about 2.2 billion people lacked potable drinking water. She emphasised that addressing the water crisis effectively required strong collaborations that leveraged expertise, innovation, and data-driven solutions to climate change impacts. She encouraged collective knowledge sharing at international, national, regional, and local levels to advance sustainable water management practices and build systems that supported equitable development in Africa and beyond. “Through that conscious action, water scarcity and a stress-free environment, water security, climate resilience and inclusive urban governance and sustainability will be achieved,” she indicated.