The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium
Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing
extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty,
hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter
while promoting gender equality, education, health and
environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all
parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments
to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous
world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of
action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent
advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN
Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN
Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium
Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces
comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including
scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians,
policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies,
the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. In this report the
UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation outlines
the bold yet practical actions that are needed to increase access
to water and sanitation. The report underscores the need to focus
on the global sanitation crisis, which contributes to the death of
3900 children each day, improve domestic water supply, and invest
in integrated development and management of water resources, all of
which are necessary for countries to reduce poverty and hunger,
improve health, advance gender equality and ensure environmental
sustainability. Implementing the recommendations of this report
will allow all countries to halve the proportion of people without
access to safe water and sanitation by 2015
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