Our daily meander around the world

🇺🇳🚰 The UN’s first major conference on water-related issues in 46 years started yesterday. Representatives from 171 countries are participating in the three-day summit held in NYC, where they aim to finalize a plan that will help address water scarcity issues around the globe. A UN study published yesterday found more than a quarter of the world’s entire population (~2.1 billion people) doesn’t currently have access to safe drinking water.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel has warned the US and others that Iran could trigger a military strike over its uranium enrichment, per Axios. In recent months, Israeli officials reportedly told allies that any signs of Iran enriching uranium beyond 60% could result in a military response. Iran has already amassed 192 pounds of 60%-enriched uranium, per an International Atomic Energy Agency report late last month (not-so-fun fact: it would take ~12 days for Iran to enrich enough of its uranium stockpile to the 90% level needed to create one nuclear bomb, a senior Pentagon official told Congress in February).

🇨🇳 The Chinese province of Jiangxi launched a state-sponsored dating app to boost declining marriage rates. Though unlike Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, or other swipe-based online dating services, the Palm Guixi app uses an algorithm that takes background data uploaded by users and matches them on blind dates. Jiangxi officials are also organizing in-person singles events and working to eliminate the custom of grooms paying the bride’s family cash, as part of their effort to increase marriages. And China isn’t the first to do this; you could say governments and dating apps are quite the match – in 2020, Japan invested $19 million in a similar initiative.