Introduction
Terms like ‘water crisis’ and a ‘water-short’ world are now in common usage, but we actually live in a ‘water-desperate’ world. Many of us who live in industrialized countries are ‘water rich’, but there are many millions of us in developing countries who are ‘water poor’ and, in fact, ‘water desperate’. The global statistics are simply horrific: at the end of 2000, there were around 1.1 billion people (18% of the world’s population) without adequate water and 2.4 billion people (40%) without adequate sanitation.1
One of the millennium goals is to reduce by half the number of people without adequate water supplies by the end of 2015,2 and the same goal for sanitation was recently added at the Johannesburg Earth Summit.3 However, the World Health Organ- ization and UNICEF are advocating a target of water
IntroductionTerms like ‘water crisis’ and a ‘water-short’ world are now in common usage, but we actually live in a ‘water-desperate’ world. Many of us who live in industrialized countries are ‘water rich’, but there are many millions of us in developing countries who are ‘water poor’ and, in fact, ‘water desperate’. The global statistics are simply horrific: at the end of 2000, there were around 1.1 billion people (18% of the world’s population) without adequate water and 2.4 billion people (40%) without adequate sanitation.1One of the millennium goals is to reduce by half the number of people without adequate water supplies by the end of 2015,2 and the same goal for sanitation was recently added at the Johannesburg Earth Summit.3 However, the World Health Organ- ization and UNICEF are advocating a target of water
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