Poverty charity group Water Aid are looking to make 2008 the International Year for Sanitation.
Water Aid’s mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
The End Water Poverty campaign has been targeting the G8 to agree a global action plan for sanitation and water since 2007, but they plan to build even more pressure in the lead-up to the summit in July.
Sanitation and safe water should be seen as basic human rights. Everyone in the world should have access to these services, yet without them thousands of people will continue to die each day.
Please take a few minutes of your time to sign the End Water Poverty Petition. More signatures are needed to make this year’s G8 host -Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda- sit up and takes notice.
This petition has already been signed by nearly 750,000 people, so why not join the growing demand for safer water and sanitation for the entire world.
