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Diageo Company: |
Diageo plc |
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to provide one million people access to safe drinking water year on year until 2015 |
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Local Communities |
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Access to safe drinking water is one of the biggest problems the world faces today. It is estimated that one billion people still do not have access to safe drinking water - 400 million of those people live in Africa.
The United Nations, in its Millennium Development Goals, has set the challenge of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015.
Diageo's Water of Life programme has provided improved water supply to over half a million people so far. But we want to do even more. Diageo Africa has set the challenge of providing safe drinking water to an additional one million people in Africa. Already we have made substantial progress towards this goal with committed water projects in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Burkino Faso, Ethiopia and Ghana.
Diageo intends to build on this progress and reach one million people year on year until 2015, making a substantial contribution to the Millennium Development Goal 7. A commitment to sustainability is inherent in these projects - from building entrepreneurial and technical skills, enabling local ownership, water usage education and environmental protection. To meet these ambitious targets, we work in partnership with governments, NGOs and community organisations to magnify our impact.
To read more about Diageo's Water Strategy and case studies please click on the following links:
Diageo Water Strategy.pdf (175KB)
Diageo Water of Life Case Studies.pdf (563KB)