Billions of people across the world live in the same kind of squalor and disease that was eradicated long ago in the developed world. Without adequate sanitation and water there can be no sustainable development in health, education and livelihoods, locking people into a cycle of poverty and disease.
Today, UN World Water Day 2007, a new global campaign is being launched that seeks to End Water Poverty. The campaign aims to address the water and sanitation crisis felt throughout Uganda and globally.
The End Water Poverty coalition is calling on Germany, hosts of the G8 this year, to explicitly acknowledge the slow progress in extending access to sanitation and water, and recognize that sanitation and water are basic human rights fundamental to poverty reduction.
The coalition will urge the G8 summit, International and National Leaders to commit to a Global Action Plan for sanitation and water to ensure adequate services for the world's poorest people.
In Uganda today the population with access to safe water has remained at a level of around 61% in rural areas for the last two years, while the urban water coverage is 51%. The sector targets are 77% of the rural and 100% of the urban population using safe water by 2015. Current sanitation coverage is 58% and Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) target is 77% of the rural and 100% of the urban population.
In spite of the Water and Sanitation Sector being one of the PEAP priorities under pillar 5, Government expenditure is decreasing with the sector's total share of the National Budget falling from 6.3% in FY 2001/02 to 2.6% in FY 2005/06.
This leaves a funding gap of more than $ 60m annually up to 2015, to meet the PEAP targets. Coupled with inadequate funding, the Sector is still faced with about a third of water sources broken down and inequitable coverage varying from ( 2% to 97% for sanitation and 10% to 90% for water).
It's against the above background that WaterAid calls upon the government, international development partners, NGOs and other stakeholders to join the coalition campaign to end the Water and Sanitation crisis in Uganda.
By working together we can be better able to realize the Millennium Development Goals and PEAP targets by 2015 and have a healthy and productive society.
The campaign in Uganda will be launched in September 2007 with a special focus on hygiene and sanitation. If you would like to add your voice to this campaign please do not hesitate to contact WaterAid Uganda at the following address:
wateraid@wateraid.or.ug or
www.endwaterpoverty.org
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