 |  | | | Liberian Water | 8 April 2009 | | |
Sanitation in Liberia
According to the World Health Organisation almost 900 million people do not have access to a safe water supply, the majority of them women and children. The aid agency Tear Fund has launched a campaign to speak out against this and to mobilise governments to take greater action.
World leaders, as part of Millennium Development goals, have committed to halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015, but experts predict that goal will not be met in Africa until 2076, 60 years too late!
Kati Whitaker returned recently from Liberia, a resource-rich country in West Africa now struggling to recover from a civil war which left around 250,000 dead and destroyed the country’s infrastructure. She found out that water and sanitation is key to that country’s reconstruction
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