End Water Poverty Campaign

End Water Poverty is a new international campaign that aims to change policy and practices according to these key principles: 

        Equity - by targeting services at the most marginalised groups, such as older people, the poor, disabled people and women
        Poverty reduction
        Sustainability of services and water resources
        Accountability, so that key decision-makers are held to account by the poor through transparent and open planning processes

What are governments doing about this crisis?

Water and sanitation are services that the poor almost always put as one of their top three priorities.  However, the international development community and developing country governments treat them predominantly as marginal issues.  The volume of spending on the sector has remained largely stagnant over the last ten years, and it has actually fallen in terms of the relative increases in overall aid spending and spending on health and education.

Put simply, the water and sanitation sector is in crisis because there is a lack of political will to push through changes that benefit the poorest and most vulnerable people.

What is End Water Poverty calling for?

The End Water Poverty campaign is demanding that governments provide sanitation and water for the world’s poorest people. We are calling for:

        One global action plan for sanitation and water monitored by one global task force
        70% of aid money for sanitation and water to be targeted at the poorest countries
        Water resources to be protected and shared equitably