Since the adoption of the United Nations, 2030 Agenda in 2015, there has been no fundamental change in the issues of extensive water resource utilization, poor management, and the over-extraction and pollution of freshwater and groundwater resources. Water-related ecosystems continue to degrade at an alarming rate. The failure to advance the clean water and sanitation goals (SDG 6) along the intended trajectory has become a global consensus (UN-Water 2021).