Under the Patronage of H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal,
UNDP launches next Tuesday the 2006 Human Development Report: “Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis”
Amman, 3 December 2006 - Under the patronage of H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal, the Honorary Human Development Ambassador for UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Jordan will launch next Tuesday, 5 December 2006, its 17th annual Human Development Report.
The annual Reports attempt to focus the global debate on key development issues, providing new ways of measuring development, fresh analysis of development problems and sometimes controversial policy proposals.
The theme of this year’s Report is “Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crises”.
In a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water and a toilet. Beyond the household, competition for water for production intensifies while the environment and the rural poor lose out. Debunking the myth that the global water crisis is the result of scarcity, the 2006 Human Development Report argues that poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.
The Report offers fresh new data on how many poor people go without water and sanitation, the inequality of access within and between nations, and on what clean water really means for child survival rates. It calls for a concerted drive to achieve water and sanitation for all through national strategies and proposes models of cooperation to resolve cross-border tensions in water management.