Access to sustainable, gender-responsive safe drinking water and sanitation are
fundamental to health, well-being and poverty eradication. Commitments are
required at global, regional and national levels to accelerate the achievement
of universal access and the progressive realization of the human right to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation that are essential for dignified human life.
Narrowing the water and sanitation deficiency gap will protect and improve
human health, advance gender equality and human dignity, create education
and development opportunities, especially for vulnerable groups, and facilitate
economic development and poverty reduction.