This week 17-23 August 2008 is the World Water Week.The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. The theme of the week is Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation.
According to a July report issued by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and nearly 1.2 billion practice open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all. The JMP report, titled Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation - Special Focus on Sanitation, comes halfway through the International Year of Sanitation.
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