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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2030 
To provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water 
and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity 
of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul 
Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 22, 2009 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. JACK-
SON of Illinois, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. 
BURTON of Indiana, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. WELCH, and Mr. WAMP) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe 
drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis 
by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States 
Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon 
Water for the Poor Act of 2005. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Senator Paul Simon 
Water for the World Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–121)— 
(A) makes access to safe water and sanita-
tion for developing countries a specific policy 
objective of United States foreign assistance 
programs; 
(B) requires the Secretary of State to— 
(i) develop a strategy to elevate the 
role of water and sanitation policy; and 
(ii) 
improve 
the 
effectiveness 
of 
United States assistance programs under-
taken in support of that strategy; 
(C) codifies Target 10 of the United Na-
tions Millennium Development Goals; and 
(D) seeks to reduce by half between 1990 
(the baseline year) and 2015— 
(i) the proportion of people who are 
unable to reach or afford safe drinking 
water; and 
(ii) the proportion of people without 
access to basic sanitation. 
(2) On December 20, 2006, the United Nations 
General Assembly, in GA Resolution 61/192, de-
clared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation, 
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in recognition of the impact of sanitation on public 
health, poverty reduction, economic and social devel-
opment, and the environment. 
(3) On August 1, 2008, Congress passed H. 
Con. Res. 318, which— 
(A) supports the goals and ideals of the 
International Year of Sanitation; and 
(B) recognizes the importance of sanitation 
on public health, poverty reduction, economic 
and social development, and the environment. 
(4) While progress is being made on safe water 
and sanitation efforts— 
(A) 
more 
than 
884,000,000 
people 
throughout the world lack access to safe drink-
ing water; and 
(B) 2 of every 5 people in the world do not 
have access to basic sanitation services. 
(5) The health consequences of unsafe drinking 
water and poor sanitation are significant, accounting 
for— 
(A) nearly 10 percent of the global burden 
of disease; and 
(B) more than 2,000,000 deaths each year. 
(6) The effects of climate change are expected 
to produce severe consequences for water availability 
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and resource management in the future, with 
2,800,000,000 people in more than 48 countries ex-
pected to face severe and chronic water shortages by 
2025. 
(7) According to the November 2008 report en-
titled, ‘‘Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World’’, 
the National Intelligence Council expects rapid ur-
banization and future population growth to exacer-
bate already limited access to water, particularly in 
agriculture-based economies. 
(8) A 2009 report published in the Proceedings 
of the National Academy of Sciences projects that 
the effects of climate change will produce long-term 
droughts and raise sea levels for the next 1,000 
years, regardless of future efforts to combat climate 
change. 
(9) According to the 2005 Millennium Eco-
system Assessment, commissioned by the United Na-
tions, more than 1⁄5 of the world population relies on 
freshwater that is either polluted or excessively with-
drawn. 
(10) The impact of water scarcity on conflict 
and instability is evident in many parts of the world, 
including the Darfur region of Sudan, where demand 
for water resources has contributed to armed conflict 
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between nomadic ethnic groups and local farming 
communities. 
(11) In order to further the United States con-
tribution to safe water and sanitation efforts, it is 
necessary to— 
(A) expand foreign assistance capacity to 
address the challenges described in this section; 
and 
(B) represent issues related to water and 
sanitation at the highest levels of United States 
foreign assistance and diplomatic deliberations, 
including those related to issues of global 
health, food security, the environment, global 
warming, and maternal and child mortality. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the United States 
should lead a global effort to bring sustainable access to 
clean water and sanitation to poor people throughout the 
world. 
SEC. 4. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is— 
(1) to provide first-time access to safe water 
and 
sanitation, 
on 
a 
sustainable 
basis, 
for 
100,000,000 people in high priority countries (as 
designated under section 6(f) of the Senator Paul 
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Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 
2152h note)) by 2015; and 
(2) to enhance the capacity of the United 
States Government to fully implement the Senator 
Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–121). 
SEC. 5. DEVELOPING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CA-
PACITY. 
Section 135 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2152h) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(e) OFFICE OF WATER.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—To carry out the pur-
poses of subsection (a), the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development 
shall establish the Office of Water within the Bureau 
for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade. 
‘‘(2) LEADERSHIP.—The Office of Water shall 
be headed by a Director for Safe Water and Sanita-
tion, who shall report directly to the Assistant Ad-
ministrator of the Bureau for Economic Growth, Ag-
riculture, and Trade. 
‘‘(3) DUTIES.—The Director shall— 
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‘‘(A) implement this section and the Sen-
ator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 
2005 (Public Law 109–121); 
‘‘(B) develop and implement country-spe-
cific water strategies and expertise, in collabo-
ration with appropriate United States Agency 
for International Development Mission Direc-
tors, to meet the goal of providing 100,000,000 
additional people with sustainable access to safe 
water and sanitation by 2015; and 
‘‘(C) place primary emphasis on providing 
safe, affordable, and sustainable drinking water, 
sanitation, and hygiene in a manner that— 
‘‘(i) is consistent with sound water re-
source management principles; and 
‘‘(ii) utilizes such approaches as direct 
service provision, capacity building, institu-
tional strengthening, regulatory reform, 
and partnership collaboration. 
‘‘(4) CAPACITY.—The Director may utilize 
interagency details or partnerships with universities, 
civil society, and the private sector, as needed, to 
strengthen implementation capacity. 
‘‘(f) SPECIAL COORDINATOR
FOR INTERNATIONAL 
WATER.— 
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—To increase the capac-
ity of the Department of State to address inter-
national issues regarding safe water, sanitation, in-
tegrated river basin management, and other inter-
national water programs, the Secretary of State 
shall establish a Special Coordinator for Inter-
national Water (referred to in this subsection as the 
‘Special Coordinator’), who shall report to the Under 
Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.—The Special Coordinator shall— 
‘‘(A) oversee and coordinate the diplomatic 
policy of the United States Government with re-
spect to global freshwater issues, including 
interagency coordination related to— 
‘‘(i) sustainable access to safe drink-
ing water, sanitation, and hygiene; 
‘‘(ii) integrated river basin and water-
shed management; 
‘‘(iii) transboundary conflict; 
‘‘(iv) agricultural and urban produc-
tivity of water resources; 
‘‘(v) disaster recovery, response, and 
rebuilding; 
‘‘(vi) pollution mitigation; and 
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‘‘(vii) adaptation to hydrologic change 
due to climate variability; and 
‘‘(B) ensure that international freshwater 
issues are represented— 
‘‘(i) within the United States Govern-
ment; and 
‘‘(ii) in key diplomatic, development, 
and scientific efforts with other nations 
and multilateral organizations. 
‘‘(3) STAFF.—The Special Coordinator is au-
thorized to hire a limited number of staff to carry 
out the duties described in paragraph (2).’’. 
SEC. 6. SAFE WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE STRAT-
EGY. 
Section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 2152h note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘In developing the program activities 
needed to implement the strategy, the Secretary 
shall consider the results of the assessment de-
scribed in subsection (e)(9).’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
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(B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) an assessment of all United States Govern-
ment foreign assistance allocated to the drinking 
water and sanitation sector during the 3 previous 
fiscal years, across all United States Government 
agencies and programs, including an assessment of 
the extent to which the United States Government’s 
efforts are reaching the goal of providing first-time 
access to safe water and sanitation on a sustainable 
basis for 100,000,000 people in high priority coun-
tries; 
‘‘(8) recommendations on what the United 
States Government would need to do to achieve the 
goals referred to in paragraph (7), in support of the 
United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal on 
access to safe drinking water; and 
‘‘(9) an assessment of best practices for mobi-
lizing and leveraging the financial and technical ca-
pacity of business, governments, nongovernmental 
organizations, and civil society in forming public-pri-
vate partnerships that measurably increase access to 
safe drinking water and sanitation.’’. 
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SEC. 7. DEVELOPING LOCAL CAPACITY. 
The Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 
2005 (Public Law 109–121) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating sections 9, 10, and 11 as 
sections 10, 11, and 12, respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after section 8 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 9. WATER AND SANITATION INSTITUTIONAL CAPAC-
ITY-BUILDING PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State and 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development (referred to in this sec-
tion as the ‘Secretary’ and the ‘Administrator’, re-
spectively), in consultation with host country institu-
tions, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, the Department of Agriculture, and other agen-
cies, as appropriate, shall establish, in every high 
priority country, a program to build the capacity of 
host country institutions and officials responsible for 
water and sanitation in countries that receive assist-
ance under section 135 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, including training at appropriate levels, 
to— 
‘‘(A) provide affordable, equitable, and sus-
tainable access to safe drinking water and sani-
tation; 
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