Sub-Saharan Africa needs 200yrs to meet sanitation MDG--says WaterAid
A new report titled, OFF TRACK-OFF TARGET releasedby the international charity, WaterAid shows that there are more people in the world today lacking adequate sanitation services than in 1990.
It says unless urgent action is taken, nearly all governments in Sub-Saharan African will fail to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) pledge they made to halve the proportion of people without sanitation by 2015.
WaterAid report released on Tuesday notes that on the current trend, it will take over two centuries for Sub-Saharan Africa to meet its sanitation MDG target.
What is more, only 20 countries in the region are on track to meet the water MDG target by 2015. All of this has massive consequences for child mortality in Africa, the WaterAid report says.
Released a day before World Toilet Day, the report states that to get the sanitation and water MDGs back on track, countries in sub-Saharan Africa need to spend at least 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on these services.
The report also calls on donor countries to double global aid flows to water, sanitation and hygiene by prioritizing an additional US$10 billion per year.
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