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Water, sanitation and hygiene promotion
In our world today:
- more than one billion
people do not have access to clean water
- over two billion people
do not have adequate sanitation facilities
- some four million people
die each year from diseases associated with the lack of access
to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene
- 4,000 children under
five years old die every day from those same associated diseases
Added to this, in times of disaster and
crises, the urgency to meet basic water and sanitation needs saves
lives, reduces diseases and restores dignity. The
overall water and sanitation challenge is best expressed in the
UN
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular goals 2,
3, 4 and 7, which have water and sanitation components. Our response
is therefore to set our targets as a contribution to meeting those
goals.
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