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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

UN Secretary General on Clean Water and Sanitation

http://mediaglobal.org/article/2008-09-28/ban-ki-moon-addresses-water-scarcity-and-sanitation

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has focused on trying to meet Millennium Development Goals of bringing safe drinking water and sanitation to those who currently lack it. However, the UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS), published by the WHO in early 2008, found that sanitation trails behind access to safe water everywhere and targeted South Asia and Africa as the most affected regions.

“In sub-Saharan Africa, the situation is alarming. To meet the targets, the region will need to more than double the annual number of additional people served with drinking water, and increase by six-fold the additional number served with basic sanitation,” said Ban Ki Moon.
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