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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/126
23 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/615/Add.1)]
50/126.
Water supply and sanitation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 35/18 of 10 November 1980, by which it
proclaimed the period 1981-1990 as the International Drinking Water Supply and
Sanitation Decade,
Recalling also its resolution 45/181 of 21 December 1990, in which it
expressed its deep concern about the slow rate of progress in the provision of
services in water and sanitation,
Recalling further its resolution 47/193 of 22 December 1992, in which it
declared 22 March of each year World Day for Water,
Bearing in mind that the Second United Nations Conference on the Least
Developed Countries, held in Paris from 3 to 14 September 1990, the World
Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and 30 September 1990, the Global
Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 and the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development, held at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992,
reiterated the need to provide, on a sustainable basis, access to safe water
in sufficient quantities and proper sanitation for all,
Deeply concerned that at the current rate of progress the provision of
drinking water will be insufficient to satisfy the needs of a very large
number of people by the year 2000 and that the lack of progress in the
provision of basic sanitation services is likely to have dramatic
environmental and health consequences in the near future,
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