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STORY: CLEAN WATER / SHORTFALL
TRT: 1:39
SOURCE: UNICEF / UNESCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
UNESCO - INDIA
1. Wide shot, slum with a giant water pipe passing through it
2. Wide shot, woman washing clothes next to still waters with a child next to her
3. Various shots, children filling up bottles with water from pipes and hoses
4. Wide shot, slum with sewage on the ground
UNESCO - AFRICA
5. Various shots, people gathering water.
UNICEF - 2005, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
6. Med shot, slum street scene
7. Close up, stagnant green water
8. Med shot, filthy sewage water in slum
UNICEF - SEPTEMBER 2005, MAURITANIA
9. Med shot, looking down well as yellow container is drawn up
10. Med shot, girl pulling yellow container out of well
UNICEF - JUNE 2005, MAJAKANDRIA, MADAGASCAR
11. Med shot, schoolgirls walking past camera
12. Med shot, schoolchildren crowded around taps washing hands with soap
UNICEF - FEBRUARY 2006, KATANGA, DRC
13. Med shot, man and woman sit on ground with baby sitting in a pot
14. Close up, wet baby sitting in pot
UNICEF - INDONESIA
15. Various shots, men installing water lines
16. Wide shot, village
17. Tilt down, woman collecting water
18. Various shots, woman washing clothes
According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the world is in danger of missing targets for providing clean water and sanitation unless there is a dramatic increase in the pace of work and investment within the next 9 years.
The report, 'MDG (Millennium Development Goals) Drinking Water and Sanitation Target - The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade' says the situation is becoming particularly acute in urban areas, where rapid population growth is putting great pressure on the provision of services and the health of poor people.
More than 1.1 billion people in both urban and rural areas currently lack access to drinking water from an improved source and 2.6 billion people do not have access to even basic sanitation.
The health impact of this shortfall can be seen particularly in children. WHO estimates that in 2005, 1.6 million children under age 5 (an average of 4500 every day) died from the consequences of unsafe water and inadequate hygiene. Children are particularly at risk from water-related diseases such as diarrhoeal and parasitic diseases. Lack of sanitation also increases the risk of outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and dysentery.
Sub-Saharan Africa is still the main focus of concern. An estimated 80% of people without access to an improved drinking water source live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia.
In rural areas, access to an improved source of drinking water and to basic sanitation services was very low in 1990. An estimated 64 percent had access to a drinking water source, while 26 percent had access to sanitation services. While those percentages rose substantially by 2004 - to 73 percent and 39 percent respectively - these numbers still fall way short of what is needed to achieve the MDGs.
One of the MDGs - to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015 - was pledged by the world in 2000.
From the report comes one example of a success story in terms of raising coverage. In Ethiopia, the Amhara region had a coverage rate for access to sanitation services of only 3.8 percent in 2003, and only 100 latrines were being constructed annually in each district. In that year, the government initiated a social marketing campaign which increased community knowledge and understanding of sanitation and its linkages to health. Community demand for latrines sky-rocketed, and by 2005, the average number of latrines constructed per district was 26,400.
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