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Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis

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Safe water and sanitation are fundamental to human development When people are deprived in these areas, they face diminished opportunities to realize their potential as human beings. Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation are two of the great drivers of world poverty and inequality. They claim millions of lives, destroy livelihoods, compromise dignityand diminish prospects for economic growth. Poor people, especially poor women and children, bear the brunt of the human costs.

At the start of the 21st century we live in a world of unparalled prosperity. Yet almost 2 million children die each year for want of clean water and toilet. More than 1 billion people do not have access to safe water and 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation. Meanwhile, inadequateaccess to water as a productive resource consigns millions to lives of poverty and vulnerability.

The report documents the systematic violation of the right to water, identifies the underlying causes of the crisis and sets out an agenda for change. This year’s Human Development Report looks at an issue that profoundly influences human potential and progress towards the Millenium Development Goals.

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New York : United Nations Development Programme., 2006

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422 hlm; 29 cm

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English

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0-230-50058-7

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NONE

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Poverty
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Human Development
Power
Global water crisis

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