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“Achieving safe water and sanitation for all would save 2.5 million lives every year.”
Water Works!
Over 9,700 of our supporters have sent in their messages backing our Water Works campaign. Here are a small selection:
Water Works! I want you to prioritise access to quality taps and toilets in low-income countries. They are truly life-saving.
It’s time for our governments to make taps and toilets an urgent priority. They are cheap, effective and simple – and they save innocent lives.
Dr Anna Foss, UK
Raymond Thubron, UK
Dear Minister,
Please do all you can to help the millions of people who suffer because of contaminated water. Think of the children. Thank you.
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Water Works!
Reverend Peggy Hiscock, UK
We know that Water Works. So do our supporters. I have been overwhelmed by the incredible response to our Water Works campaign – we have received thousands of messages and photos backing our call to end the global water and sanitation crisis. At the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting, you have the opportunity to take decisive action. We know that taps and toilets save lives – they are cheap, simple and effective. Together, we are calling on governments to prioritise investment in these basic human rights. Reaching the Millennium Development Goal target for water and ensuring over two billion people now have clean drinking water is a great achievement. However, there is much more to do. 783 million people still live without access to safe water and 2.5 billion have nowhere safe to go to the toilet. With diarrhoeal diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation now the biggest killer of children in Africa, progress has to improve. Investment in water and sanitation is crucial. By getting the Millennium Development Goal target for sanitation back on track in every country, we will save at least 400,000 children’s lives by 2015. But we can and must do more. Achieving our vision of safe water and sanitation for all would save 2.5 million lives every year.
Water is life! It is a basic human right to have access to clean water and sanitation. I urge all governments to do more to achieve this. It is within their powers to save thousands of lives. Cloda Whyte, UK
The photos and messages sent in by our amazing supporters show that Water Works. I urge you to join them and take action now to end the global water and sanitation crisis.
Please help to transform lives by improving access to safe water. Give the people of the world’s poorest communities what we take so much for granted – clean water!
Thank you.
Sister A Dewhurst, UK
A world where everyone has clean water to drink and somewhere safe to go to the toilet is within our grasp. The High Level Meeting can and must deliver clear political commitment to make this happen.
Water is lacking – it is vital and a gift to us. Good things in life aren’t free and water is a good thing. Bartholamew, Zambia
If there were water points near my house I would use my time to cultivate the crops. I would plant rice, vegetables and I would grow something more! Masini Bahadur Damai, Nepal
Clean water, a clean environment and sanitation facilities can really improve children’s lives. If we could get some help in order to improve life, we will be very happy about that. Aminata Rabo, Burkina Faso
I want to live in a future where I will look back and be astonished that people didn’t have clean water to drink. Please, please help to bring a future with safe water and sanitation. Dr D Hartwell, UK
As a new mother I can’t help but empathise with those that have no choice but to give their vulnerable newborns water that could kill them. No parent should ever have to make that decision about their child. Please do all you can to help. Jenny Ross, UK
Barbara Frost UK Chief Executive WaterAid
Universal access to safe water and sanitation should be a basic human right. You have the power to transform the lives of millions of vulnerable people. Please do so. Loraine Boast, UK
Water is the lifeblood of the human race. Please make sure every human being gets fresh, clean water. R Saunders, UK
Clean water is very important because it helps avoid diseases. Kinina Coulibaly, Mali Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)
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These are just some of the thousands of supporters calling for action to end the global water and sanitation crisis. View all of their photos at www.wateraid.org/waterworks