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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 08/06/2001  By  drkhinninithein@visto.com	
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Two leading international UK charities, Tearfund and WaterAid, are combining forces to launch Water Matters, which aims to put water and sanitation high on the agenda at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Their Campaign to get water to the Summit can be found at
http://www.tearfund.org/generic/index.asp?id=6912 
 
Warmly,
NiNi
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Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein 
Ph.D. Hydroinformatics
Gender Ambassador
Executive Director
WRTC http://www.wrtcburma.org
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FULL STORY 

Fighting the global water crisis 

Two leading international UK charities, Tearfund and WaterAid, are taking action against the global water crisis by combining forces to launch Water Matters - a campaign that aims to put water and sanitation high on the agenda at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002.

Joanne Green from Tearfund outlines the need for action: "It is a chilling fact that a child dies every 15 seconds from water related diseases and by 2025 two out of every three people will be living with water shortages.[i] To prevent a world crisis we MUST stop acting like water is an infinite resource and start managing it properly. We must also make sure the world’s poor have access to clean water and sanitation and that governments invest sufficiently to achieve this."

Together, Tearfund and WaterAid are calling on everyone to sign a petition, which will be presented, to Downing Street ahead of the World Summit next year. The petition urgently calls for the Prime Minister and UK Government to: 

- Urge all UN member governments to agree an action plan for meeting the target to halve the number of people without access to drinking water by 2015, and ensure each country has national policies for managing water resources in place by 2005


- Promote and secure an international agreement to halve the number of people without adequate sanitation by 2015 


- Increase the UK' s official development assistance to the agreed UN target of 0.7% of GNP, prioritising water supply, sanitation and water resources within that increase, and urge other developed countries to do the same.

 Water shortage, poor sanitation and poor hygiene are already at alarming levels with over 1 billion people lacking access to a safe water supply and 2.4 billion people lacking access to adequate sanitation. See the Tear Times article on the Water Matters campaign.   

Stephen Turner from WaterAid confirms why Water Matters is a campaign we must all support, "The number of people that die every year from water-related diseases is the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day, mostly full of children. These deaths do not make the news and the world just accepts them. Now is the time to tell our government that the UK public do care about unnecessary deaths in the developing world, and that sorting out the world's water resources should take priority. We need to tell them in as loud a voice as possible that Water Matters!'' 

Details of the petition are available from WaterAid 020 7793 4508 or Tearfund on 0845 355 8355.   

ENDS 

For further information about the Water Matters campaign, launch details, the petition or to arrange interviews please contact:
Sharon Brand-Self, WaterAid Tel: 020 7793 4501, 
Keith Ewing, Tearfund Tel: 020 8943 7779 or 
Carmel Suthons Tel: 020 8543 4881 
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