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Five health risks hold the key to boosting life expectancy by five years UN report
27 October 2009 - Addressing five critical risk factors underweight childhood, unsafe sex, alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure could add almost five years to global life expectancy, according to a new United Nations report.
Gaza water crisis prompts UN call for immediate opening of crossings
3 September 2009 - The top United Nations humanitarian official in the occupied Palestinian territory today joined aid agencies in calling for the immediate opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow the entry of spare parts and materials critical to restoring the area’s water and sanitation services.
UN agency warns of potential cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
20 August 2009 - The conditions that led to the worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s history last year, including poor water and sanitation infrastructure, remain and the disease could return this year, an official with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
Aid agencies need $11 million to provide water and sanitation to displaced Somalis UN
14 July 2009 - Aid agencies in Somalia are appealing for $11 million to provide the hundreds of people displaced by fighting in the capital with emergency water and sanitation programmes, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today.
Egypt making progress in water, sanitation UN rights expert
29 June 2009 - Egypt has made great strides in improving access to drinking water and is well-situated to address remaining challenges related to water and sanitation, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today.
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- SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING SIDE EVENT, SPELLS OUT AREAS CRYING OUT FOR ACTION TO ADVANCE IMPLEMENTATION OF WATER AND SANITATION AGENDA - 24 September 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT EXPO ZARAGOZA, STRESSES NEED TO TACKLE EXISTING CHALLENGES, EMERGING THREATS IN MEETING GLOBAL WATER, SANITATION GOALS - 2 September 2008
- EXPERTS WARN OF IMPENDING GLOBAL CRISIS AS COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES REVIEW OF DECISIONS RELATING TO WATER, SANITATION - 13 May 2008
- SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD WATER DAY, CALLS LACK OF POLITICAL WILL BIGGEST CULPRIT IN FAILURE TO ACHIEVE BASIC SANITATION GOAL - 5 March 2008
- UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION TO BOOST PROGRESS IN PROVIDING PROPER FACILITIES FOR 2.6 BILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE - 21 November 2007
- SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ACCESS TO SANITATION -- ONE OF MOST OVERLOOKED HUMAN NEEDS - IS CORE ISSUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, ON LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR - 20 November 2007
- SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN TO SERVE AS HONORARY PRESIDENT OF ADVISORY BOARD ON WATER AND SANITATION - 1 November 2007
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