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Maharashtra, India
Maharashtra
State - Waterborne Diseases Epidemic Information
For the last 10 years - as at 20 March 2004
Maharashtra
State - ORS Supply Information
For the last 10 years - as at 20 March 2004
Guides
India
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Safe Water System - Developed by Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Progress For Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation
Number 5, September 2006 - UNICEF
Unsafe water and the lack of basic sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to
the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal diseases,
pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for whether children,
especially girls, attend school. This means that achieving Millennium
Development Goal 7 and its 2015 targets of reducing by half the proportion of
people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
are of vital relevance for children and for improving nutrition, education and
women's status. Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation
will report on whether the world is on course to reach MDG 7 – and where efforts
are falling short.
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UN | Water for
Life, 2005-2015 - International Decade for Action
 Video: "Water for Life" produced by
Global Visions [English]
[French]
Real Player download
Booklet
for the International "Water for Life" Decade
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20 pages 2.1 mb
Water is essential for life. Yet many millions of people around the
world face water shortages. Many millions of children die every year from
water-borne diseases. And drought regularly afflicts some of the world’s
poorest countries. The world needs to respond much better. We need to
increase water efficiency, especially in agriculture. We need to free
women and girls from the daily chore of hauling water, often over great
distances. We must involve them in decision-making on water management. We
need to make sanitation a priority. This is where progress is lagging
most.
Kofi A. Annan, 22 March 2005 |
WHO | Water, Sanitation and Hygiene links to
Health: Facts and Figures
updated November 2004
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Diarrhoea
- 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases
(including cholera); 90% are children under 5, mostly in developing
countries.
- 88% of diarrhoeal disease is attributed to unsafe water supply,
inadequate sanitation and hygiene.
- Improved water supply reduces diarrhoea morbidity by between 6% to
25%, if severe outcomes are included.
- Improved sanitation reduces diarrhoea morbidity by 32%.
- Hygiene interventions including hygiene education and promotion of
hand washing can lead to a reduction of diarrhoeal cases by up to 45%.
- Improvements in drinking-water quality through household water
treatment, such as chlorination at point of use, can lead to a reduction
of diarrhoea episodes by between 35% and 39%.
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Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target:
A mid-term assessment of progress
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_23559.html
26 August, 2004
In adopting the Millennium Development Goals that address the most pressing development issues, countries pledged to halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Yet, more than 1 billion people today lack safe drinking water, and some 2.6 billion - half of the developing world - lack improved sanitation. This publication reports on our progress towards the MDG goal of ensuring environmental sustainability. It seeks to encourage countries slow to meet the target to accelerate action, and highlights areas where efforts need to be strengthened in order to meet the goal.
UN Water Report
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target
More information:
Why world's taps are running dry
Water Facts: The Big Picture
A statistical view of the world's water - BBC
News
World's
water hot spots
From disappearing lakes and dwindling rivers to military threats over shared
resources, water is a cause for deep concern in many parts of the world.
Supplies are threatened by overuse, bad management and changing weather
patterns. The pressure will only increase as populations grow.
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