Oro azul : construindo solucoes Africanas para a agua, saneamento e higiene
Salifu, Lukman Y.
Water, sanitation and hygiene are at last beginning to receive the recognition they deserve from the highest political levels. The Secretary-General of the United Nations has named water and sanitation as the first of the five key areas in which to improve the lives of all humans while protecting the global environment. Water, sanitation and hygiene are explicitly or implicitly essential for the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals. Within Africa, Ministers responsible for water have formed a standing alliance, the African Ministerial Conference on Water (AMCOW); several other regional groups, such as the Africa Water Task Force and the African Water Forum, are increasingly active. As the Water Ambassador for Africa, invited by the African Development Bank and endorsed by the African Water Task Force (at the Accra conference on Water and Sustainable Development in Africa in April 2002) and the AMCOW conference in Abuja, I am delighted to introduce this series of Field Notes and Leaflets. We face the formidable task of assisting all Africans to achieve access to safe and convenient water and sanitation services and to adopt hygienic behaviors - a task that requires both committed leadership and skilled professional work. The Water and Sanitation Program-Africa Region, with Jon Lane as the series editor, has researched and produced this series of documents to help achieve that task. The series brings together examples of interesting and innovative work in water, sanitation and hygiene from across our continent. The range of work described reflects the depth of local knowledge and experience that Africa can draw upon in solving its own problems. I commend these Field Notes and Leaflets to all African politicians, leaders and professionals concerned with water, and to all our colleagues around the world working with us for the benefit of African people.
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