Twenty-five million people across Africa could gain access to safe water and basic sanitation over the next five years as a result of a new policy launched today by International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander [of DFID, the UK Department for International Development].
The policy will see DFID work to meet its £200 million commitment to address the serious water and sanitation challenges that condemn people in the developing world to poverty, hardship, disease and death. The steps that will be taken are set out in the paper Water: An increasingly precious resource, Sanitation: A matter of dignity 
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Read more: DFID, 28 Oct 2008
Sanitation Updates 