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MUN Resolution Water

The document calls for the formation of a United Nations organization called UNSWAG to address issues around clean water in Africa such as mediating disputes over water resources and investigating companies polluting water sources. It encourages UNSWAG to work with governments to improve irrigation, ensure transparency in clean water funding, prioritize densely populated areas to prevent disease spread, set limits for access to clean water, and calls on states to invest more in achieving clean water goals.

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MUN Resolution Water

The document calls for the formation of a United Nations organization called UNSWAG to address issues around clean water in Africa such as mediating disputes over water resources and investigating companies polluting water sources. It encourages UNSWAG to work with governments to improve irrigation, ensure transparency in clean water funding, prioritize densely populated areas to prevent disease spread, set limits for access to clean water, and calls on states to invest more in achieving clean water goals.

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COMMITTEE: Africa QUESTION OF: Clean Water SUBMITTED BY: Cameroon THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Taking into account

the 1999 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, which identified Nile, Niger, Volta and Zambezi basins as potential flashpoint sites, Noting with concern the fact that 80% of the worlds population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, Deeply concerned with climate-induced inter-state conflict risk, for example, violence on the Mauritania-Senegal border, Alarmed by contamination of water sources by industrial organisations, which has caused cancers and other diseases in indigenous populations, Fully alarmed by the deteriorating situation in the Horn of Africa, where 11.5 million people are directly affected by water scarcity, 1. Calls for the formation of UNSWAG (United Nations Society for Water under African Governance), whose main priorities would be as follows: a. Encouraging integrity within the African continent, by mediating negotiations between hostile nations and, if necessary, placing UN peacekeeping forces on the borders b. Initiating investigations by medical and biochemical specialists into companies which dump toxic waste in rivers and streams (where the alternative is financial sanctions against the corporations and any subsidiaries); 2. Encourages UNSWAG to work alongside governments to provide better irrigation for rural districts, so as to avoid any further conflicts; 3. Strongly suggests that governments agree to transparency in the allocation of funds (from aid donors and their own GDP) towards managing this crisis, as well as current policies on clean water and sustainable management; 4. Recommends that densely populated areas become the priority, so as to avoid the spread of epidemics such as cholera and other water-borne diseases; 5. Requests that limits be set, so that no dwellings are further than 2 miles from a source of clean running water; 6. Calls upon the 23 states not expected to meet the Millennium Development Goal (of improving water availability) to renew their efforts and invest more time in the campaign to battle water scarcity.

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