Tag: sanitation
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Today is World Water Day
Today is World Water Day, and while two fifths of the world live without adequate sanitation and one in eight have no access to safe water, it marks an important day in the international development calendar. Clean water is key to development, not only to halt the staggering loss of life due to water-borne diseases,
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Steve Cockburn on the human right to water
There’s a very interesting blog by LCID’s Steve Cockburn over on the Progress site about the Tories pulling out of the process to recognise the right to water. In July the UK abstained on a UN resolution tabled by the president of Bolivia recognising access to water and sanitation as a human right, due to
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