Its status was bolstered further yesterday when, in his address to the Ministerial Conference, the Prince of Orange told the 115 ministers and other officials that the democratic participation of citizens is the way forward in elaborating and implementing water policies and projects. Later, in a hastily scheduled meeting to respond to NGO concerns about the overall Vision process, Eveline Herfkens sympathised with their position and invited them to continue to lobby for greater participation in the drafting of the Framework for Action. There were other tributes too. There are still 3 billion people in the world without hygienic sanitation facilities, and this leads to five thousand children dying each day from diarrhoeal disease. This site is maintained by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre .
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