Water
Posted by Bob Ruehl on Jul 01, 2016
Water, water everywhere...
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Global movement needed to reverse water crisis
<https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/news-media/news-features/global-movement-needed-reverse-water-crisis>
Rotarian Action Groups
Global movement needed to reverse water crisis
<https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/news-media/news-features/global-movement-needed-reverse-water-crisis>
This year's World Water Summit <http://www.wasrag.org/wws8-seoul-korea> on May 27 in Seoul highlighted the progress being made:
* Over the last 25 years, more than 2.5 billion people gained access to improved drinking water, and 2 billion who didn't have adequate sanitation now do.
* Child deaths from water-related diseases dropped from 1.5 million to just over 600,000.
* The UN Millennium Development Goals' target for clean drinking water was met five years ahead of schedule. But for the 1.8 billion people whose drinking water remains contaminated and the 2.4 billion without access to proper sanitation, progress is still too slow, said Vanessa Tobin, director of water and sanitation for Catholic
Relief Services and one of the event's main speakers.
<http://www.crs.org/our-work-overseas/program-areas/water-and-sanitation>