PARIS (AFP) - A UN-backed International Decade for Water has kicked off with addresses, media-friendly demonstrations and awards aimed at drawing attention to the plight of the world's most plentiful but most abused resource.
Placed under the banner "Water for Life," the decade seeks to lobby support for the United Nations (news - web sites)' Millennium Goals, which hope to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water or sanitation by 2015.
Some 2.4 billion people have no toilets or sewers, and 1.1 billion do not even have drinkable water.
Does this 1.1 billion include Terri from Florida?
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