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The highest priority for UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation programme
is improving access to safe water and helping provide adequate sanitation to millions
of low-income urban dwellers and measuring that impact. World leaders meeting
at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 committed themselves to attaining
the Millennium Development Goal 7, target 10 which aims to reduce
by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
by 2015. In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
in Johannesburg added another target: to halve by 2015, the proportion
of people who do not have access to basic sanitation. Although the
task is enormous, it is not insurmountable. Improving access to water and sanitation
in low income urban settlements is possible.
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Hanoi, 22 Apr 09
After a highly successful meeting, representatives from a group of countries from Mekong region reaffirmed their commitment to an initiative by UN-HABITAT aiming to provide water and sanitations to their citizens. |
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