Water summit urges collaboration to quench world’s thirst
The statistics are staggering. Worldwide, 2.5 billion people have no improved sanitation facilities. More than 783 million people lack access to clean drinking water.
But the message at the World Water Summit held Friday in Sydney was encouraging: Rotary members and their clubs can bring down those numbers through collaborations and partnerships with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and governments.
«These are scary numbers,» said Jenny Da Rin, assistant secretary for the Health and Environmental Safeguards branch of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. «…
