A/RES/50/126 Page 2 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the SecretaryGeneral on progress made in providing safe water supply and sanitation for all during the first half of the 1990s; 1/ 2. Takes note of the programme strategies in water and environmental sanitation adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund at its annual session for 1995 2/ and of resolution AFR/RC 43/R2 of the Regional Committee for Africa of the World Health Organization, in which the Committee endorsed the Africa 2000 initiative for water supply and sanitation in Africa; 3. Calls upon Governments to implement fully the provisions concerning water resources in general and water supply and sanitation in particular contained in chapter 18 of Agenda 21, 3/ and the recommendations made by the Commission on Sustainable Development at its second and third sessions, 4/ including the recommendations for action contained in the Action Programme of the Ministerial Conference on Drinking Water and Environmental Sanitation convened by the Government of the Netherlands on 22 and 23 March 1994, 5/ in particular: To develop, review or revise by 1997 and implement, in the context (a) of a national sustainable development strategy consistent with Agenda 21, measures for drinking water supply and environmental sanitation, taking into account the goals set by the World Summit for Children; (b) To undertake, as appropriate, legal, regulatory and institutional reforms designed to bring about the management of water resources at the lowest appropriate level, including stakeholder participation and the involvement of the private sector, and to adopt strategies for capacitybuilding; (c) To assign high priority to programmes designed to provide basic sanitation and excreta disposal systems to urban and rural areas and to the treatment of waste waters, with provisions for community involvement; 1/ A/50/213-E/1995/87. 2/ See E/1995/L.23, sect. IV, decision 1995/22. The final text of the decision will appear in Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 13 (E/1995/33/Rev.1). 3/ See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1) (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions Adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II. 4/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1994, Supplement No. 13 (E/1994/33/Rev.1); and ibid., 1995, Supplement No. 12 (E/1995/32). 5/ See E/CN.17/1994/12, annex. /...