{"id":88915,"date":"2017-02-11T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88915"},"modified":"2017-02-11T00:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:02:18","slug":"more-than-13-m-people-access-clean-water-in-15-years-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/11\/more-than-13-m-people-access-clean-water-in-15-years-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 13-M people access clean water in 15 years in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88916\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Maputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88916\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Maputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014.png\" alt=\"Government authorities have announced in Maputo that between 1990 and 2015, more than 13 million Mozambicans accessed clean drinking water and 7 million accessed proper sanitation. (Photo by AP1MZ (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Maputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Maputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Maputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Government authorities have announced in Maputo that between 1990 and 2015, more than 13 million Mozambicans accessed clean drinking water and 7 million accessed proper sanitation. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMaputo_seen_from_Katembe_2014.png\">AP1MZ (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MAPUTO\u2014Government authorities have announced in Maputo that between 1990 and 2015, more than 13 million Mozambicans accessed clean drinking water and 7 million accessed proper sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the number, indicating more than half of the estimated 25 million Mozambican population, government authorities said the sector for water access needs more investments.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Housing and Public Works, Carlos Bonete told cooperation partners in a meeting aimed at presenting the country&#8217;s strategic vision towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for water until 2030 that the country will need an estimated USD4 billion to invest in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The amount will be used to improve water access, guarantee sustainability and equity in service delivery including resilience to climate change, Bonete said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up to now, the country has a coverage around 50 percent in terms of safe access to clean water and about one-third of the population has access to sanitation,&#8221; the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Trindade, national director for water access, said that the level of investment in the sector of water is beyond the expectation.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting with partners in Maputo was also aimed at raising financial resources to materialize the government objectives in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Alvarinho, chairman of the Water Regulation Council, aimed to speed up the process to use every source of water for consumption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to consider water, hygiene and sanitation as fundamental tools to fight poverty. We need to find out how to capture water from the drainage systems and from rains,&#8221; said Alvarinho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPUTO\u2014Government authorities have announced in Maputo that between 1990 and 2015, more than 13 million Mozambicans accessed clean drinking water &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15026,10781],"class_list":["post-88915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-mozambicans","tag-mozambique","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}