Water Wheel - Nov/Dec 2004

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The theme for next year’s World Water Day, which will beheld on 22 March 2005, is “Water for Life 2005 – 2015”. According to Dick de Jong from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in the Netherlands, the theme highlights the fact that water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the alleviation of poverty and hunger. De Jong says the United Nations General Assembly agreed in December 2003 to proclaim the years 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action – Water for Life, starting on World Water Day. He says the Water for Life decade will help to achieve the water-related goals of the Millennium Declaration, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit for Sustainable Development as well as Agenda 21. The first water decade from 1981 to 1990 brought water to more than a billion people and safer sanitation to almost 770 million.

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