Drinking Water Sustainability

Agendas that international organizations attend to differs from time to time and that are shaped by the things that are happening within the international regime and one of the persistent topics are based on the attempt to regulate social, political and economic problems that a number of countries are facing. The problem of development particularity the developing countries such as Uganda is an agenda that development programmes such as the Millennium Development Goals “MDGs are a set of ambitious targets for reducing poverty, inequality and child mortality, and for promoting education, health and a better environment in the Third World” (Jackson and Sorensen, Introduction to International Relations: Theories & Approaches 2010).

The Millennium

But for the sake of this paper the focus will be on the 7th goal which is to ensure environmental sustainability and the target of the goal that is important for the purpose of this paper is to “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water” (Hulme 2009).

The access to one of the essential things such as water is one of the important aspects when it comes to sustaining and maintaining an individuals’ human security as it is essential to life and should be recognized for its value in one’s daily use. Uganda is one of the numerous countries who are provided with aid to attend to their problem of improving the access to safe drinking water and sanitation in their country. The importance of water and sanitation to Uganda is why the focus on development also includes the water and sanitation problems they have in both the urban and the rural areas of the country.

Including the fact that there are water related problems such as a great majority of diseases that are linked to poor water sanitation, this is what the newly appointed and elected government had to consider when constructing a development plan for the country.

• Structural Adjustment

This provides an insight on the shape in which the policies such as the structural adjustment plans that are developed by the government would look like as they have a neo-liberal influence and would preferably promote neo-liberal practices such as privatization being one of them. An economic policy that would help improve a newly independent country such as Uganda in 1986, the ten-point programme is a policy that aimed to enhance economic development by making sure that the economy follows a mixed economic