Ethiopia has achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7 target C for halving the number of people without access to safe water by 2015.Speaking at the 7th WASH multi-stakeholder forum on Thursday, Water, Irrigation and Electricity Minister Motuma Mekassa said a total of 36 million people have benefited from access to potable water in the past five years.
UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, Gillian Mellsop congratulated the government of Ethiopia for achieving the MDG Goal 7 C target.
According to the minister, the effort to provide safe water will continue in the future, even if some 67 percent have benefited from potable water.
In 2013 the government of Ethiopia launched One WASH National Program, a comprehensive seven years program in two phases with the transitional period phase program will be finalized at the end of this year and the second phase will be carried out from 2016-2020.
The One WASH National Program operationalizes agreements between four sector ministries with a total budget of $2.4 billion, the minister added.
Mellsop said “We should redirect our financial and technical resources to remote, dry, hydro-geological challenging parts of Ethiopia and reinforce our attention to underserved population in order to promote equity within the WASH sector.
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