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UNDP Water Governance Facility - Water and Sanitation Governance
Abstract
Almost 1 billion people lack clean drinking water. Another 2.4
billion people have no access to hygienic sanitation facilities;
1.2 billion lack any sanitation facilities at all. Each day, 5,000
children die from preventable water and sanitation related diseases.
Through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
the international community committed to halve the proportion
of people without access to clean water and basic sanitation
by 2015. While the world is on track to meet the water
supply MDG, there are still major gaps in many regions and
countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. But the sanitation
target could be missed by a staggering 700 million people.
Meeting the MDG water and sanitation targets is more than
a health and dignity issue. The evidence is compelling that
achieving the water and sanitation goals would trigger a major
leap forward in human development.
Availability of water is certainly a concern for some countries.
But the global water and sanitation crisis is mainly rooted in
poverty, power and inequality, not in physical availability. It is,
first and foremost, a crisis of governance and thus governance
reform must be a key pillar of any strategic approach to solving
the problem.
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