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| Author: |
UNDP/Hesperian Foundation, 2005-04-01
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| Title: |
Water for Life: Community Water Security |
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The Hesperian Foundation in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, 52 pages
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| Type: |
Books
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| Country / Region: |
Global
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| Categories: |
Health,
Millennium Development Goals,
Water & Sanitation
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| Themes/Issues: |
Access,
Development,
Participation
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| Date Posted: |
2006-01-30 |
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the world’s agreed targets for addressing poverty in its many dimensions. Lack of access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is one such dimension affecting billions of people around the world. The MDGs will only be achieved by actions on the ground. Knowledge dissemination among poor communities is the way forward. Water and sanitation targets can be achieved through empowering individuals, households and communities to take charge of their development needs.
Following on the success of Where There Is No Doctor, the Hesperian Foundation attains another milestone with the publication of Water for Life: Community Water Security. This new publication clearly points the way toward achievement of the MDGs. It complements a previous publication, Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment by directly addressing the actions needed at the community level to ensure access to safe drinking water.
This booklet provides practical guidance on the most important “how to” questions dealing with access to water. It highlights, among other issues, what can be done to make water safe for drinking and cooking, and how to protect groundwater resources, collect rainwater, and store water safely.
Water for Life: Community Water Security is one of the key knowledge products of UNDP’s Community Water Initiative, launched with support from the Swedish Government (through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA), enabling communities to live healthier lives through improvements in their access to water supply and sanitation.
*** This publication is also available in French and Spanish at: http://www.undp.org/water/supply.html ***
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