SADC misses safe water

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Southern Africa is very far from reaching the Millennium Development Goal seven of eradicating poverty, and especially far from target 10 of accessing safe water and adequate sanitation, the chairperson of Women's Land and Water Rights in Southern Africa, Jester Charewa, (WLWRSA) says.

Speaking at the beginning of a two-day Africa regional working conference on water, sanitation, gender and sustainable development, WLWSRSA chair, Jester Charewa, said by women accessing land, water and sanitation would reduce poverty.

She said that statistics were there to show that Africa is the poorest in the world, with a majority of these being women.

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