Kartlegging
Fiction, Facts & Future: Norad’s Assistance to Water Supply and Sanitation Development in Tanzania and Kenya during the 70s, 80s and 90s
The International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-90) ended without reaching its declared goal of providing all people with safe drinking water and proper sanitation. High population growth rates in the developing countries hampered and reduced the coverage. Other hindering factors included the lack of appropriate technology, the preference of the small privileged urban areas over the vast rural areas, the lack of the simultaneous approach in the development of water and sanitation and poor involvement of health education in the activities of the Water Decade. The water and sanitation development activities of the last decade have to be carried forward and continued during the present decade, in a different approach and alternative methods. In the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) new targets were agreed upon and the world committed itself to halving by 2015 the number of people without access to water and sanitation.