Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right in July 2010.
We launched our clean water and sanitation program in 1998, starting small with village-based water systems.
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She said that this hampers UN agencies striving to provide clean water, sanitation, food, shelter and health care.
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Today one billion people live in slums dense, urban areas that usually lack clean water, sanitation and electricity.
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.
We already have the scientific knowledge to make immediate strides in the provision of clean water and sanitation, provided the funding is there.
UNESCO: World Water Day 22 March 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World
It will also supply clean water and sanitation to almost two million people, and direct treatment for some 4, 500 people with the disease.
Oxfam's programmes in the surrounding villages and camps for the displaced have been providing more than 50, 000 people with clean water, sanitation facilities, hygiene education and assistance to improve their livelihoods.
So far the grassroots group has completed about 20 low-cost clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects, including hand dug wells, rehabilitation of existing wells and construction of communal latrines, that have benefited at least 7, 000 people.
It is estimated, for instance, that some 2.5 million new engineers and technicians will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the region is to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of improved access to clean water and sanitation.
John Anner: A trend in clean water and sanitation in the past was for aid organizations to come into a community, dig a well or build a latrine, provide information on how it should be used, and then leave.
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According to a study by Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, improving the delivery of clean water and sanitation to the poor would be a highly cost-effective way to use additional aid to developing countries.
Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity.
Some would prefer to see a shift to policies that improve overall health, including investing in decent sanitation and clean water.
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Having clean water and safe sanitation transforms lives, such as that of Yacouba Doumbia a student from the Simba East school in Mali.
Clean water and proper sanitation are where it all starts.
UNESCO: World Water Day 22 March 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World
Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
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Moreover, every pound households spend on school fees and other school charges is a pound not spent on child nutrition, health care, medicine, clothes, shelter or sanitation and clean water.
"Mukhtar played an important role in providing vulnerable communities with access to clean drinking water and sanitation in areas where the risk of water-based diseases is high, " UNICEF Deputy Representative Hannan Sulieman said.
Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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Conditions for the refugees now in Kutum are poor, with the majority of those displaced from the camp living in open areas without basic services, such as clean water, food, sanitation facilities and health care, UNAMID said Friday.
The war destroyed major water points and water systems, forcing millions of Liberians to go without access to clean and safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities.
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Glaciers, ice fields, and snowpack store an immense amount of fresh water and gradually release it to meet year-round needs for irrigation, drinking, sanitation, industrial processing, clean energy, and food production.
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With no sanitation facilities, essentially, very little clean water and not much food, everybody is desperate to rebuild the small homes that they had and get back to them.
Nearly 800 million people lack dependable access to clean water and about 2.5 billion people lack access to modern sanitation, putting them at risk of disease.
"Small neighborhood groups organized by Obama and his colleagues operated street cleanup campaigns and Crime Watch programs, successfully sought improved sanitation service from the city, and got the parks department to clean up and improve South Side green spaces and playgrounds, " Dougherty writes.
Nor do they have to pay for sanitation, because latrines are often provided by the aid agencies, or clean water, since that is often supplied by the agencies or by the government.
We need clean water not only to sustain ourselves, but also for other basic necessities such as farming and sanitation.
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