Stepping Out For Water, a walk in Laleham & Staines, Middx for the people around the world lacking clean water and sanitation
This was a march about the one fifth of the world who lack clean water and the 40% who lack basic sanitation. In 2000, 189 nations committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, No. 7 of which included the aim to halve those without clean water and sanitation by 2015. Promises were easy to make, but at current rates will fall very much short of this aim - some 600 million people short. More action is needed, and the aim of this walk from All Saints' Church Laleham to Staines - chosen as it is a typical distance that people have to walk for their water in Africa - was to add to pressure on our politicians and government to get things done. Similar events have been organised elsewhere in the world, for example by WaterAid in Australia, and other events took place in the UK, particularly linked to World Water Day, a week ago on March 22, 2008.
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Location: Staines, Middlesex, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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