Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Caroline Spelman (Conservative), on Thursday, 20 March 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 54 members in total.

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WORLD WATER AND SANITATION

That this House applauds the Third World Water Forum currently underway in Kyoto, Japan; notes that one billion people lack access to safe drinking water; further notes that 2.4 billion people lack basic sanitation facilities in the world and that a child dies every 15 seconds from water-borne diseases; recognises that the average fresh water supply per person will be one third smaller by 2020; congratulates the NGOs and international bodies for their work on the issues surrounding water and sanitation in this the UN International Year of Freshwater; supports the Millennium Development Goal to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015; highlights that to meet the MDG we need to deliver clean water to 350,000 people per day until 31st December 2014; and sanitation to 450,000 people per day until 31st December 2014; expresses concern that we are seriously failing to achieve these targets; and calls upon the Government to do more to reverse this worrying trend.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

924 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Access Drinking water Water Water supply Sanitation Conferences

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk