Help provide 100 million people with access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis.
Why is this important?
The Water for the World Act calls for the United States to help in a global effort to bring sustainable access to clean water and sanitation to the world’s poor through direct funding, development activities, and partnerships within six years of this Act’s enactment. The actions of the Act places emphasis on providing safe, affordable, and sustainable drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene, while supporting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal on access to safe drinking water.
