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Reaching out to the global community has always been a chief objective of WAMUNC and several committees are geared towards the very idea of global outreach every year. Every conference, WAMUNC works with an organization geared toward confronting one of many global issues that our world faces today. While there are countless issues that WAMUNC and the IAS recognize as being essential to this world’s future, this year we have selected one issue in paprticular.
One of the most crucial issues the international community must face is universal access to clean, drinkable water. According to the World Health Organization , approximately 884 million people around the globe still use unsanitary drinking water sources. That number amounts to around one in every six people living on the Earth. A significant portion of those 884 million people will contract waterborne diseases and many will die as a result. In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1 that declared access to sanitary water a basic human right. However, this goal has been far from achieved and as such, WAMUNC and the IAS adopted the idea as clean water to be the annual outreach theme and have been working in lieu with a non-governmental organization called Charity Water to help achieve this goal.
We believe it is imperative that the young generations of this globe not only recognize and understand this issue, but also be apart of the effort to allviate the threat of unsanitary water. Therefor, WAMUNC looks forwrard to working with delegates during WAMUNC XIV to contribute their small but vital part of the massive effort to finally make universal access to clean water a reality.