World Water Week takes place

World Water Week is being marked by health authorities around the world to highlight the importance of access to clean water.

The 2009 World Water Week: Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good is being held until August 22nd.

Stockholm International Water Institute is hosting the event, which is acting as a forum for world leaders to share their ideas on water's impact on health and poverty.

There is a special focus on trans-boundary waters for this year's event, which will include several workshops and conferences on this issue.

Individual seminars on the need for clean water to wash with, as well as sanitation purposes and to help stop diarrhoea are also scheduled.

The United Nations increased the emphasis on achieving the millennium development targets for water and sanitation by declared 2005-2015 the International Decade for Action 'Water for Life'.

Approximately 87 per cent of the global population have access to safe drinking water, according to Unicef.

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