Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
World Water Day - March 22
Water for Humans commends the vital link between water and forests recognized at this UN website for World Water Day.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Today is World Toilet Day - UN Sanitation Update
Though the world met the MDG target for drinking-water, 768 million people do not use animproved source of drinking-water.
In developing regions, 87% of the population uses an
improved source of drinking-water while 2.5 billion people, or almost
one third of the population, do not use improved sanitation. Within the
developing world (without counting India and China) in 2011, 870
million people have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990, but
there is a 12% increase of population using unimproved facilities in
this region for the same 21-year period. -more-
Saturday, March 22, 2014
World Water Day (3/22)
Today (March 22) is World Water Day, as
designated by the UN, and this year’s theme is Water and Energy. Here is a link to today’s publication of the UN's World Water Development Report 2014, Water and Energy.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
United Nations Declares November 19 "World Toilet Day"
Singapore diplomat Mark Neo said he doesn’t care if people laugh about ‘World Toilet Day’ because it spotlights a serious problem: 2.5 billion people worldwide don’t have access to proper sanitation.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/declares-world-toilet-day-article-1.1409180#ixzz2bxgPCMVm
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/declares-world-toilet-day-article-1.1409180#ixzz2bxgPCMVm
Monday, March 19, 2012
Launch of the 4th edition of the World Water Development Report
The World Water Forum
The World Water Assessment Programme is pleased to announce that on 12 March 2012, on the first day of the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, the UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova, launched the widely anticipated 4th edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR4) ‘Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk’.
DOWNLOAD THE 4TH EDITION OF THE WORLD WATER DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Volume 1: Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk
Volume 2: Knowledge Base
Volume 3: Facing the Challenges
Click here to download WWDR4
The World Water Assessment Programme is pleased to announce that on 12 March 2012, on the first day of the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, the UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova, launched the widely anticipated 4th edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR4) ‘Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk’.
DOWNLOAD THE 4TH EDITION OF THE WORLD WATER DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Volume 1: Managing Water under Uncertainty and Risk
Volume 2: Knowledge Base
Volume 3: Facing the Challenges
Click here to download WWDR4
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Millennium development goal on safe drinking water reaches target early
UN tempers news that 89% of global population can access safe drinking water with warning that sanitation MDG is a long way off
The international target to halve the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water has been met, five years before the 2015 deadline, the UN announced on Tuesday.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef joint monitoring programme for water supply and sanitation (JMP), between 1990 and 2010 more than 2 billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells. Using data from household surveys and censuses, the JMP said at the end of 2010, 89% of the population – 6.1 billion people – now used improved drinking water sources, 1% more than the 88% target contained in millennium development goal (MDG) number seven, set in 2000. more
The international target to halve the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water has been met, five years before the 2015 deadline, the UN announced on Tuesday.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef joint monitoring programme for water supply and sanitation (JMP), between 1990 and 2010 more than 2 billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells. Using data from household surveys and censuses, the JMP said at the end of 2010, 89% of the population – 6.1 billion people – now used improved drinking water sources, 1% more than the 88% target contained in millennium development goal (MDG) number seven, set in 2000. more
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