Water supply and sanitation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Calls upon Governments to: (a) develop, review or revise by 1997 and implement measures for drinking water supply and environmental sanitation, taking into account the goals set by the World Summit for Children; (b) undertake, as appropriate, legal, regulatory and institutional reforms designed to bring about the management of water resources at the lowest appropriate level; (c) assign high priority to programmes designed to provide basic sanitation and excreta disposal systems to urban and rural areas and to the treatment of waste waters, with provisions for community involvement; (d) formulate and implement investment strategies and cost-recovery policies aimed at generating a flow of financial resources commensurate with needs, taking into account the needs and conditions of the peri-urban and rural poor; (e) establish or strengthen a nationwide water and sanitation monitoring system, making full use of the information support system developed by the Joint Monitoring Programme of WHO and UNICEF.

Adopted without vote, 96th meeting

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Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1995.