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Introduction
We hope you find this edition of Oasis inspiring and informative. Please read it, get involved and then pass it on to friends or family - or leave it in your doctor's or dentist's waiting room so others can read about our work too. If you have recently begun to support us – welcome to WaterAid! You may have signed up through the leaflet that came with your water bill. These are generously donated by the water companies around the UK, raising a fantastic £750,000 towards our work this year alone. Whether you have supported our work for a day or a decade every single one of you is crucial to changing the lives of people around the world who live without water and sanitation. Thank you for your support. This year sees the mid-point of the Millennium Development Goals – targets agreed by all world governments to halve the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015. Water and sanitation were included in the targets – but progress has been shamefully slow. Globally the water target looks set to be met – but when you scratch beneath the surface the poorest countries are still way off track. The situation for sanitation is even worse. Despite it being a precursor to good health it is almost forgotten in development plans and over 2.6 billion people live without this basic need. To read more about this issue read Larry Elliott's article The Great Stench in which he asks why water and sanitation have been so neglected. There are many ways you can make a difference. You could take part in an event, make a donation, join a campaign group, become a speaker or sign a petition. It can be the most unique ideas that make a big impact as our knitted river proved earlier this year. Other ways to get involved are scattered throughout this issue of Oasis and I hope there is something to inspire all of you. Barbara Frost
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