End Water Poverty

WaterAid America is a member of  End Water Poverty, a global coalition calling on governments to provide sanitation and water for the world's poorest people. 

End Water Poverty is calling for:

• One global action plan for sanitation and water monitored by one global task force
• 70% of aid money for sanitation and water to be targeted at the poorest countries
• Water resources to be protected and shared equitably

Thanks to all those who took the latest End Water Poverty action to tell the G8 leaders to urgently address the crisis in sanitation and water at their summit in Japan in July 2008.

Our verdict on the G8:

We are pleased to report that WaterAid supporters' incredible campaigning efforts helped ensure that sanitation and water appeared on the agenda and were included in the leaders' final declaration. The first faltering steps have been taken towards recognizing their key role in reducing poverty – and the End Water Poverty campaign was part of this.

However, the G8 didn't deliver what WaterAid is calling for as part of the End Water Poverty coalition. No global action plan, no global taskforce. By the time the G8 next meet, in Italy 2009, around two million children will have died from entirely preventable diseases and billions of the world's poorest people will be left by their governments to live in squalor, disease and indignity.

The G8 have failed again to learn from history, experts and the poor themselves: tackling the sanitation and water crisis will hugely reduce global poverty.

So, what now?
We must continue to build public pressure ahead of the next major influencing opportunity, the UN High Level meeting being held this September.

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