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Subject: Water Matters - prioritise water and sanitation issues at the
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 09/04/2001 By svarghese@iatp.org
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Water Matters - prioritise water and sanitation issues at the Earth Summit
2002.
Two leading international UK charities, WaterAid and Tearfund, 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. 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
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* Promote and secure an international agreement to halve the number of
people without adequate sanitation by 2015
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* 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.
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!''
A campaign web site is found at http://www.watermatters.org.uk
Sharon Brand-Self
Media Relations Manager
www.watermatters.org.uk
Tel: 020 77934501
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