UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right in July 2010.
Yet water and sanitation facilities are a key ingredient of social and economic progress.
Provinces and municipalities, responsible for things like housing, water and sanitation, routinely underspend their capital budgets.
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One of the areas that I felt needed immediate attention was the water and sanitation issue.
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We launched our clean water and sanitation program in 1998, starting small with village-based water systems.
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We have it in our power to provide water and sanitation to everyone within a generation.
Carson has a civil-engineering degree and spent time in Honduras working as a water and sanitation engineer.
The top four were basic health care, better water and sanitation, more schools and better nutrition for children.
This group of ministers and officials are committed to the endeavor of bringing water and sanitation to all.
This dramatic drop came about through a combination of vaccination programs, nutrition programs, and better water and sanitation.
To ensure a future where we all have access to water and sanitation it is essential that we cooperate.
According to the UN's World Health Organization lack of clean water and sanitation kills 1.6 million children each year.
We need to achieve our targets on clean water and sanitation, and provide education and basic sanitary information to all.
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On current trends, it will be over 250 years before the region has universal access to both water and sanitation.
We already have the scientific knowledge to make immediate strides in the provision of clean water and sanitation, provided the funding is there.
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He also started thinking about the investments and efforts that went into this water and sanitation project amid all the instability.
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While part of this program, projects are undertaken within the areas of Ecology and Conservation, Water and Sanitation, or Social Community involvement.
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It spells out the benefits that additional spending on water and sanitation could bring, and sets these against the comparatively modest costs.
Furthermore, more than half of all hospital beds in developing countries are occupied by patients suffering from water and sanitation related diseases.
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And what is more meaningful, in my opinion, is that these families and communities are still using their water and sanitation systems.
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Also, access to water and sanitation was a human right and States must take action to ensure those rights were met, others noted.
It will also supply clean water and sanitation to almost two million people, and direct treatment for some 4, 500 people with the disease.
International and national civil society organizations must also act to secure increased investment in providing universal access to water and sanitation by 2020.
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We must increase investments in education, health, and water and sanitation.
The groups established six panels to handle water and sanitation, health and nutrition, distribution of relief items, logistics and infrastructure, camp management, and protection and security.
Most striking was a promise to cut by half the number of people with inadequate water and sanitation, and to try to do so by 2015.
Basic systems that can be managed by communities themselves accounted for less than 20% of donor funding to the water and sanitation sector in 2010.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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