UN-Habitat
 
Water and Sanitation Programme
 
The highest priority for UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation programme is improving access to safe water and helping provide adequate sanitation to millions of low-income urban dwellers and measuring that impact. World leaders meeting at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 committed themselves to attaining the Millennium Development Goal 7, target 10 which aims to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg added another target: to halve by 2015, the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation. Although the task is enormous, it is not insurmountable. Improving access to water and sanitation in low income urban settlements is possible.
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FEATURE STORIES

UN-HABITAT partners with Australian mining company to supply water in Laos
Melbourne - 30/06/2008


UN-HABITAT on Monday announced a partnership deal with a mining company to deliver clean drinking water to residents of the Laotian town of Vilabouly as part of a the agency’s new drive to scale up water and sanitation services to those most in need.

Celebrating five years of partnership with the Asian Development Bank
Singapore - 27/06/2008


UN-HABITAT and the Asian Development Bank this week celebrated five years of working together

UN-HABITAT partners with private firms for solid waste solutions
Nairobi - 24/06/2008


Working in collaboration with two Kenyan engineering firms, UN-HABITAT has developed innovative tractor trailer systems and a little pick up designed to meet the solid waste collection needs of small towns.

UN-HABITAT makes life easier for women of a Tanzanian village
Muleba, Tanzania - 17/01/2008


Kelezensia Melkioli has finally seen her prayers answered. Having spent nearly all her life in Kazirantemwa village,

UN-HABITAT and Eritrea
Nairobi - 05/12/2007


Mrs. Tibaijuka received the new Permanent Representative to UN-HABITAT from Eritrea on 5 December 2007. She told the envoy, Mr. Salih Omer Abdu, that under the first United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the period 2002-2006, UN-HABITAT had implemented the low-cost housing delivery system for Eritrea.

Events
First International WASH Practitioners' Marketplace and Fair
26-Sep-07 - 28-Sep-07
Mombasa, Kenya
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Framework for Global Water Operators Partnerships Alliance
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