SRES 81 ISRS
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 81
Supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 23, 2009
Ms. COLLINS (for herself and, Mr. KERRY, and Mr. DURBIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
July 28, 2009
Reported by Mr. KERRY, with an amendment and with amendments to the preamble
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RESOLUTION
Supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
Whereas the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution, has designated March 22 of each year as ‘World Water Day’;
Whereas a person needs 4 to 5 liter [Struck out->]liters[<-Struck out] gallons of water per day to survive;
Whereas a person can live weeks without food, but only days without water;
Whereas every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-borne disease;
Whereas, for children under age 5, water-borne5 years of age [Struck out->]5[<-Struck out] , water- [Struck out->]borne[<-Struck out] related diseases are the second leading cause of death;
Whereas millions of women and children already [Struck out->]already[<-Struck out] spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources;
Whereas [Struck out->]every dollar spent on water and sanitation saves an average of $9 in costs averted and productivity gained[<-Struck out] 884,000,000 people do not have access to safe drinking water;
Whereas 2,500,000,000 people do not have access to adequate sanitation and 1,200,000,000 people do not have access to any sanitation facilities;
Whereas water-related diseases are responsible for 80 percent of all illness and deaths in the developing world;
Whereas, at any given time, 1/2 of the hospital beds in the world [Struck out->]the world[<-Struck out] sub-Saharan Africa are occupied by patients suffering from [Struck out->]a water-borne disease;Whereas [<-Struck out] water-related diseases;
Whereas [Struck out->]
88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene
;Whereas
[<-Struck out] 50 percent of childhood malnutrition is associated with water- and sanitation-related diseases;
Whereas [Struck out->]1,100,000,000 (1 in 6) people lack access to an[<-Struck out] every dollar invested in improved water supply;Whereas 2,600,000,000 people in the world lack access to improved sanita and sanitation yield gains of $4 to $12, depending on the type of intervention;
Whereas the 263 transboundary lake and river basins in the world are part of the territory of 145 countries and cover nearly 1/2 of the land surface of the Earth;
Whereas climate change may cause more extreme floods and droughts, increasing political tension and the potential for clashes over transboundary fresh water resources;
Whereas the global celebration of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Whereas the participants in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, including the United States, agreed to [Struck out->]agreed to[<-Struck out] adopted the Plan of Implementation which included an agreement to work to reduce by 1/2 [Struck out->]from the baseline year 1990[<-Struck out] , between 1990 and 2015--
(1) ‘the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water’, ‘and [Struck out->],[<-Struck out] ; and
(2) ‘ [Struck out->]and[<-Struck out] the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation’ by 2015; andWhereas [Struck out->]by 2015[<-Struck out] ; and
Whereas [Struck out->]Congress passed and the President signed into law[<-Struck out] the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-121), which was intended to ‘elevate the role of water and sanitation policy in the development of U.S. foreign policy and improve the effectiveness of U.S. official programs’: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) supports the goals and ideals of World Water Day;
(2) urges an increased effort and the investment of greater resources by the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and all relevant Federal departments and agencies toward providing sustainable and equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the poor and the very poor; and
(3) encourages the people of the United States to observe the week of World Water Day with appropriate activities that promote awareness of the importance of--
(A) access to clean water and sanitation; and
(B) cooperation between stakeholders in transboundary water management.
Calendar No. 131
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 81
RESOLUTION
Supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
July 28, 2009
Reported with an amendment and with amendments to the preamble
U.S. Congress - Text of S.Res.81 as Reported in Senate A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
