Source: This Day (Lagos)

By Abimbola Akosile

To resolve the looming water and sanitation crisis, calls have been made for an Global Action Plan under G8 leadership for help and resolution, even as the 2006 Human Development Report (HDR) calls for 20 litres of clean water a day for all as a human right.

The report to check a growing water and sanitation crisis that causes nearly two million child deaths every year. According to the Report, entitled Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis, unclean water is an immeasurably greater threat to human security than violent conflict, across much of the developing world.

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Posted by pichu at November 29, 2006 4:32 PM