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Table 9.3 Various aspects of vital activity connected (directly of indirectly) with the fresh water
problems
Millennium declaration Problems to be resolved

Goal 1 To extirpate extreme
poverty and hunger

Over the period 1990 − 2015, to halve the share of population
with the income less than 1 dollar per day and to halve the
share of the starving people

Goal 2 To provide universal
elementary education

By the year 2015, to provide possibility for both boys and
girls in the world to be elementarily educated

Goal 3 To promote equality
of men and women and
broaden the ability of women

To liquidate inequality of boys and girls in their access to
elementary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and
to all the levels of education by not later than 2015

Goal 4 To reduce infant
mortality

To reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under
5 years over the period 1990 − 2015

Goal 5 Improve mothers '
health

To reduce by three fourths the mothers ' mortality over the
period 1990 − 2015

Goal 6 To struggle against
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other
diseases

By the year 2015, to stop the propagation of HIV/AIDS,
malaria, and other basic diseases and start reducing its scale

Goal 7 To provide ecological
stability

To take into account the principles of sustainable
development in national strategies and programmes and
reduce the loosing trend of ecological resources. By the year
2015, to halve the share of population without access to pure
drinking water, to substantially improve the life of 100
millions of slums dwellers, as a minimum

Goal 8 To arrange global-scale
partnership in the interest of
development

To continue the formation of the undisguised, predictable and
nondiscriminatory commercial and financial systems based
on legal norms. To provide control, development and
reduction of poverty on national and international levels. To
satisfy special needs of the least developed countries having
no access to the sea as well as small island developing
countries (SIDC). In cooperation with the private practice
sector, to take measures in order everybody could use the
bene ts of new technologies

Plan of realization of decisions
of the Summit of Millennium

By the year 2015, to halve the share of population without
access to safe drinking water partially because of want of
money (as foreseen in the Millennium Declaration) and the
share of population without access to base sanitation. By the
year 2005, to work-out plans of a complex control of water
resources and efficiency of water use

The geographical distribution of fresh-water resources is rather non-uniform:
about half the global resources are the share of six countries (Brazil, Russia,
Canada, Indonesia, China, Columbia), this non-uniformity being also characteristic
of individual countries. So, for instance, China has 7 % of fresh-water resources
(with a 21 % share of population with respect to global one), but most of the
country is arid. Naturally, the countries with water de cit have to use ground

waters, what brings forth a gradual decrease of their level. The data in Table 9.4
characterize the levels of per-capita water diversion in different countries as of 2011