Clean Water In The News

Nov 10th, 2006 2:00 PM UTC
By Virginia Simmons

Yesterday, the Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency published a piece on the global clean water crisis. With over a billion people living without safe drinking water, it is one of the world’s most pressing public health problems today.

In the article, United Nations Development Program Administrator Kemal Dervis, says “The word ‘crisis’ is sometimes overused in development. But when it comes to water…there is a growing recognition that the world faces a crisis that, if left unchecked, will derail progress towards the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and hold back human development.”

Read the full November 9, 2006 IPS article here.

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