Act to Bring Africa Back on Track
Access to safe drinking, water, appropriate sanitation and hygiene is a basic need and fundamental right for all human beings. Eight years ago, 53 African Governments were among the 192 Governments that pledged to ensure environmental sustainability. In that United Nations 2000 Millennium Declaration they pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. This became the seventh aim of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet, each year, water related diseases kill 5 million people worldwide, two and a half times more than AIDS, which caused 2.1 million deaths in 2007.
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