Aid Water Policy Running Dry

The Government must act to stop the world’s second largest killer of children – unclean water.

World Vision reports, “diseases or infections associated with inadequate water supply and sanitation affect almost half the people in the developing world. More than a billion people in the world lack clean water and more than two and a half billion people lack access to improved sanitation.”

But the Government’s commitment to water and sanitation through the Australian aid program is running dry. There is a shortfall between the aid program’s water policy (published in 2003) and practice.