UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 4 May 2008 -- Two years after it was passed into law, the Paul Simon ‘Water for the Poor” Act has recently received funding via the recent Congressional budget allocation for FY2008.  

The Act explicitly identifies drinking water and sanitation for the world’s poor as a primary objective of US foreign development aid. 

Channeled through the budget of the United States Agency for International Development, US$300.0 million is to be set aside for the implementation of this Act.

It is anticipated that the funding will be activated in the field by August or September and will be used to support drinking water and sanitation projects to the tune of US$2.0 million to US$10.0+ million a project within a selection of countries that is still being determined.

While a member of the House International Relations Committee, Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon authored the Bill. 

A senior advisor from the Congressman’s office re-enforced that US$120.0 million of the funds will be specifically allocated for projects in sub-Sahara Africa.

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