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Gambia News : Gambia ahead in MDG's water target - Yankuba Touray
Yankuba Touray, the Gambian Minister for Fisheries, Water Resources and
National Assembly Matters, has said that the Gambia has made tremendous
achievements in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target for the
water sector, with an encouraging 80 per cent-plus access to clean
drinking water by its population in the rural areas.
In a broadcast, monitored on Gambia Radio and Television Thursday,
Touray said many countries in the world were fighting tooth and nail to
meet the MDGs target in this sector, adding this percentage meant that
The Gambia had met the MDGs targets of access to clean drinking water.
He added that his ministry's biggest challenge now was to meet the sanitation component.
According
to him, sanitation occupies the greatest attention of The Gambia
government, and it is trying to ensure that it meets the target before
2015.
He also said meeting the MDG target for water could be a
source of triumph for any nation, adding that the ultimate goal of the
Gambian government was to reach 99 to 100 per cent of access to clean
drinking water in the country.
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- Hmmmmmm! birds of the same feathers are on the sky again. And your president is able to cure aids or what? "Yankuba Touray; No no no only my president lies not me!
(Posted on March 29, 2009, 6:40 PM N.fatty)
- yankuba 2ray you talk to much closs you mout
(Posted on March 29, 2009, 3:32 PM yaya jammeh)
- I'm sorry, mister minister, but this just is not true. Maybe the majority of people in rural areas do have access to water, but it is far from clean. To access clean water, boreholes should be drilled to at least the second water layer, which is for most rural areas about 45 meters underground. Most boreholes only reach some 20-25 meters and end in a water layer consisting of still, polluted water.
But yes: sanitation may be of greater importance than clean water, since most Gambians are well aware of the need to boil all water before consumption.
(Posted on March 29, 2009, 3:19 AM Lamin Jallow)
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