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UN - Water for People Water for Life
Abstract
We are in the midst of a water CRISIS THAT HAS MANY FACES.
Whether concerning issues of health or sanitation, environment
or cities, food, industry or energy production, the twenty-first
century is the century in which the overriding problem is one of water
quality and management. Water management has evolved, but in 2003
some 25,000 people are still dying every day from malnutrition and 6,000
people, mostly children under the age of five, are dying from water-related
diseases. It is a real-world crisis that numbers alone can dehumanize. The
months of writing this text have seen headlines of millions facing
malnutrition in southern Africa, millions affected by floods in Bangladesh,
floods throughout central and eastern Europe, and hundreds killed by Nile
fever. But the silent deaths of millions of others do not make daily
headlines, nor does the plight of those poor and powerless people who are
still deprived of a basic human right. Yet these terrible losses, with the
waste and suffering they represent, are preventable.
We know the problem: it is one of management, and we have agreed
on targets for improvements to be made by 2015. But will we honour these
commitments? Will we muster the political will to meet our goals? To do so
we must provide more than a quarter of a million individual people with
improved water supply and hygiene each and every day. We must act now.
This report provides a comprehensive review of today's water problems, and offers wide-ranging recommendations for meeting future water demand.
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