TEDxUniversityofGothenburg – Jan Eliasson – The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis

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TEDxUniversityofGothenburg – Jan Eliasson – The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis

January 23, 2012 WASHLink Leave a comment Go to comments

from site: Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and currently represented in the UN group of Ambassadors for promoting the Millennium Goals, offered the opening speech at TEDxUniversityofGothenburg.”

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