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Published on Monday, June 27, 2011 by The Guardian/UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jun/27/donor-aversion-water-projects
More than 1 billion people will not get the basic sanitation and the clean water promised as such projects shrink sharply as a proportion of global aid budgets
by Fiona Harvey
A key development goal to halve the number of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015 will be missed because donor countries have diverted aid money away from "unsexy" water projects, according to the World Bank and the charity WaterAid.
Aid to give people in developing countries access to clean water and sanitation has been shrinking as a proportion of global aid budgets, new research has shown, with the result that more than a billion people will not get the help they were promised by rich countries under the millennium development goals.
Instead, donors are restricting aid to "sexier" projects such as schools and hospitals – even though the benefits of those are diminished if their recipients have no clean water or toilets.