The United Nations Development Program says the world is facing a water crisis. It says each year, more than two million children die from diseases caused by unclean water.(1)______________________. The warning is in this year’s Human Development Report, released by the U.N. agency on November ninth. Kevin Watkins, the lead writer, says these deaths could be prevented with clean water and toilets. The report also finds that (2)____________________. Mister Watkins says the crisis in health care also diminishes economic growth in many developing nations. The report says more than one thousand million people in the world do not have clean water and sanitation. The Human Development Report proposes a three-part action plan to help solve the crisis. First, Mister Watkins says national legislation is needed that provides citizens with the right to twenty liters of water a day. Second, the action plan calls on each nation to spend more on water and healthcare facilities. Third, the plan calls for increased international aid. This would require an additional four thousand million dollars a year, or two times as much international aid, in the next ten years. Mister Watkins says the world is not running out of water. (3)_______________________. The report also urges governments to consider fairness, equality and social justice when supervising water.
