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International Year of Sanitation
March 3rd 2008 07:58
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It goes without saying that clean water is a major necessity for survival in all communities.
Improved sanitation includes clean toilets with wastewater management, and proper hygiene promotion.
Cleaning hands with soap prevents the spread of gastro-intestinal diseases which is a major cause of death for children in poverty stricken areas without access to basic sanitation.
Let's spare a thought for those who do not have access to clean water and sanitation this year and support organisations like UNICEF, without which, many thousands more would die each day.
To read more about how UNICEF are supporting International Year of Sanitation click here
Information provided by UNICEF.org/media
2008 has been declared the International Year of Sanitation with the hope of boosting the worldÂs commitment to achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, which aims to halve the proportion of people living without access to clean water and proper sanitation by 2015.
This goal is within our reach: With the help of organisations like UNICEF, between 1990 and 2004 about 1.2 million people gained access to improved sanitation. But urgent action is needed to reach the 2.6 billion people who still do not have access.
Clean water and sanitation facilities allow children to overcome malnutrition and diarrhoea and to survive and thrive. For more than 40 years, UNICEF has been building wells and latrines; teaching communities about hygiene and working with governments and partners to ensure that water and sanitation are made a priority in community planning.
UNICEF also works during and after emergencies to restore access to clean water supplies. For example, UNICEF is still working in Sri Lanka to repair damage three years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami and will provide up to 18,000 families in the Tangalle area with clean, piped water in early 2008.
This goal is within our reach: With the help of organisations like UNICEF, between 1990 and 2004 about 1.2 million people gained access to improved sanitation. But urgent action is needed to reach the 2.6 billion people who still do not have access.
Clean water and sanitation facilities allow children to overcome malnutrition and diarrhoea and to survive and thrive. For more than 40 years, UNICEF has been building wells and latrines; teaching communities about hygiene and working with governments and partners to ensure that water and sanitation are made a priority in community planning.
UNICEF also works during and after emergencies to restore access to clean water supplies. For example, UNICEF is still working in Sri Lanka to repair damage three years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami and will provide up to 18,000 families in the Tangalle area with clean, piped water in early 2008.
It goes without saying that clean water is a major necessity for survival in all communities.
Improved sanitation includes clean toilets with wastewater management, and proper hygiene promotion.
Let's spare a thought for those who do not have access to clean water and sanitation this year and support organisations like UNICEF, without which, many thousands more would die each day.
To read more about how UNICEF are supporting International Year of Sanitation click here
Facts on Children
Water and Sanitation
* Some 2.6 billion people worldwide (two in every five) lack access to improved sanitation  two billion of them in rural areas.
* Of the approximately 120 million children born in the developing world each year, half will live in households without access to improved sanitation facilities and one-fifth in households without access to improved drinking water sources.
* Unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 per cent of deaths form diarrhoeal diseases, or more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million diarrhoea-related deaths among children under the age of five each year. This amounts to 18 per cent of all under-five deaths.
* More than 5,000 children are dying every day as a result of diarrhoeal disease.
Millennium Development Goal 7 includes the target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by the year 2015. At present, the world is on course for the drinking water target. However, the world is unlikely to reach the sanitation target at present rates of progress.
* The annual cost of meeting the water and sanitation targets until 2015 is $11.3 billion.
For every dollar spent on water/sanitation projects, the estimated return on the investment is from $3 to $34.
Updated: April 2007
Water and Sanitation
* Some 2.6 billion people worldwide (two in every five) lack access to improved sanitation  two billion of them in rural areas.
* Of the approximately 120 million children born in the developing world each year, half will live in households without access to improved sanitation facilities and one-fifth in households without access to improved drinking water sources.
* Unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 per cent of deaths form diarrhoeal diseases, or more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million diarrhoea-related deaths among children under the age of five each year. This amounts to 18 per cent of all under-five deaths.
* More than 5,000 children are dying every day as a result of diarrhoeal disease.
Millennium Development Goal 7 includes the target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by the year 2015. At present, the world is on course for the drinking water target. However, the world is unlikely to reach the sanitation target at present rates of progress.
* The annual cost of meeting the water and sanitation targets until 2015 is $11.3 billion.
For every dollar spent on water/sanitation projects, the estimated return on the investment is from $3 to $34.
Updated: April 2007
Information provided by UNICEF.org/media
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