These people`s clean water needs must be met in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target in the clean water and sanitation sectors by 2015, he said.
"This means clean water infrastructure development should be accelerated," Tuwo said at a national conference on drinking water and sanitation affairs or KSAN here.
KSAN data showed that until the end of 2009 the national coverage of drinking water sources was only 47.71 percent, while the feasible basic sanitation facilities only reached 51.19 percent.
"This is of course very alarming considering that the MDGs target in the water supply and sanitation sectors is to reduce by 50 percent the number of the population who have no access to drinking water sources and basic sanitation by 2015," he added.
(Uu.SDP-09/B003/HAJM/F001)
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