With World Water Day being celebrated on 20 March, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urged governments, businesses and NGOs alike to step up efforts to reduce uncontrolled dumping of waste in rivers - in both poor and rich nations.
This year's World Water Day focuses on sanitation in accordance with the International Year of Sanitation 2008. The goal is to speed up progress towards the UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the share of the 2.6 billion people around the world with no access to basic sanitation. Other objectives of the year are to increase awareness on hygiene promotion, water quality and wastewater treatment.
"Sanitation, human health and the environment are inextricably linked. Adequate water supply and sanitation means a clean environment and healthy people," said Ger Bergkamp, head of IUCN's Water Programme.
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