This money will be spent to restore the capacity of basic public services such as water supply, electricity importation, water sanitation, heating plants and road repair.
Exactly one year later, we broke ground on a water and sanitation project in a small rural community called Joezohn with no access to safe drinking water or sanitation facilities.
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Every organization focused on addressing the water and sanitation crisis has a mission statement that suggests they want to create a world where all people have access to water, or where no child dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.
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Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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"Mukhtar played an important role in providing vulnerable communities with access to clean drinking water and sanitation in areas where the risk of water-based diseases is high, " UNICEF Deputy Representative Hannan Sulieman said.
The next step was to find a partner with an understanding of the challenges of urban sanitation in the developing world, cue Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) joining the partnership.
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The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.
To support these global goals, in recent years the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee has focused on water treatment and sanitation, water quality and water management in International Development.
"The outbreak is likely to continue as the water and sanitation situation is worsening, with severe shortages of potable water, sewage and waste disposal problems reported in most of the populated areas, " the statement said.
We launched our clean water and sanitation program in 1998, starting small with village-based water systems.
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Teens design pedal-powered filtration system: High-schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot , from Oakland Park, Florida , led a team of inventors who designed a collapsible, transportable, bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station that filters E. coli and other harmful pathogens from contaminated water.
The Liberian government, in partnership with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation program, has already put it to good use Kugler says, mapping 10, 000 water points during 2011.
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right in July 2010.
Yet water and sanitation facilities are a key ingredient of social and economic progress.
Provinces and municipalities, responsible for things like housing, water and sanitation, routinely underspend their capital budgets.
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One of the areas that I felt needed immediate attention was the water and sanitation issue.
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They have no running water or sanitation dysentery and even cholera are real risks and no income.
Water, sanitation and other utilities are usually absent, making the incredible overcrowding even harder to bear.
We have it in our power to provide water and sanitation to everyone within a generation.
Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity.
Carson has a civil-engineering degree and spent time in Honduras working as a water and sanitation engineer.
The top four were basic health care, better water and sanitation, more schools and better nutrition for children.
She said that this hampers UN agencies striving to provide clean water, sanitation, food, shelter and health care.
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Today one billion people live in slums dense, urban areas that usually lack clean water, sanitation and electricity.
Access for everyone to water, sanitation and hygiene would also save around 2.5 million lives every year.
This group of ministers and officials are committed to the endeavor of bringing water and sanitation to all.
This dramatic drop came about through a combination of vaccination programs, nutrition programs, and better water and sanitation.
To ensure a future where we all have access to water and sanitation it is essential that we cooperate.
According to the UN's World Health Organization lack of clean water and sanitation kills 1.6 million children each year.
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