1.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water.
When world leaders gathered at the Millennium Summit in 2000, they agreed upon integrated goals with time-limited targets to reduce poverty and improving the environment. 1.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and proper sanitary conditions, and 1.6 million die every year because of this. The UN Millennium Development Goal for water is to “halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.”
DNV wants to be a part of this global agenda, and contributes through the cooperation with the Red Cross. Realising that DNV could make a significant contribution within the water area, the partnership primarily focuses on water issues.