Correspondence with Government Officials

Dear {Title. Name. Honorific},

We need your help to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, Target 6.1, which is to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for every community.

 

About us

EssentialNeed.org is a non-profit organization and registered charity as approved by the Australian government, working to help achieve Target 6.1. We are made up of 31685 voices from 151 countries and growing daily.

Our corporate supporters so far include the likes of Google, Microsoft, and more than 2,000 businesses have joined us, with support continuing to grow.

Schools and universities are assisting us in educating our youth and young adults in achieving a solution to one of the greatest threats to the world’s humanity.

We are all united by wanting Target 6.1 be achieved.

 

The problem we are looking to solve

It is everyone’s responsibility to prevent avoidable deaths and achieve a more sustainable world. Here are some facts about extreme water poverty. 

Through a united voice, we aim to get the elected officials of developed countries, such as yourself, to agree with a funding commitment towards Target 6.1.

 

Most people think that ending extreme poverty will lead to overpopulation. The facts below show that the opposite is true.

 

Overpopulation

 

The solution

A commitment from every developed country

With a united voice, we are asking every developed country to match its funding to provide access to clean water for UN's reported impacted people which is 663 million people. Annexure A provides the commitment targets for each country based on its population. 

We ask that the funding is provided to accredited NGOs with a demonstrated history of delivering clean water projects as per Annexure B.

Our aim is to get the funding commitment from your government as per Annexure A.

 

What we need from you

Please email us a publication within 28 days upon receipt of this letter showing your support for this funding request with any extra information that you would like us to publish. Your publication will be posted under Government Official Publications for public information and for presentation to your Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Rights which can approve the bill. Kindly email your publication to publications@essentialneed.org

In the case that you are not able to respond within that time frame, please let us know when to expect your publication.

For inquiries, please contact our Government Relations team at government.relations@essentialneed.org.

It is our responsibility to achieve a more sustainable world and prevent avoidable deaths.

Your Voice can change everything.

 

EssentialNeed.org team and members

 


 

Annexure A - Commitment from developed countries

Countries indexed for having ‘very high human development’ are considered to be the developed countries that we are asking commitment from. The cost per victim is estimated at $50 AUD and recommended solution providers are listed under Annexure B. The formula used to calculate Commitment per developed country to meet this challenge globally is (Population / 2) x $50 AUD. Please note, $50 AUD is an indicative rate and can be different for each NGO depending on the location of the project. We ask that funds be paid to your chosen NGOs through EssentialNeed.org for centralised reporting purposes. The NGOs are listed in Annexure B.

 

 

 

 

Country

Very High HDI

Population (2016) 

Number of affected people to support

Estimated Commitment in $AUD

Norway 

0.949

 5,214,900

 2,607,450

$131,000,000

Australia

0.939

 24,171,600

 12,085,800

$605,000,000

Switzerland 

0.939

 8,341,000

 4,170,500

$209,000,000

Germany 

0.926

 82,175,700

 41,087,850

$2,055,000,000

Denmark 

0.925

 5,707,251

 2,853,626

$143,000,000

Singapore 

0.925

 5,535,000

 2,767,500

$139,000,000

Netherlands 

0.924

 17,000,059

 8,500,030

$426,000,000

Ireland

0.923

 4,757,976

 2,378,988

$119,000,000

Iceland 

0.921

 332,529

 166,265

$9,000,000

Canada

0.92

 36,155,487

 18,077,744

$904,000,000

United States

0.92

 324,099,593

 162,049,797

$8,103,000,000

Hong Kong 

0.917

 7,234,800

 3,617,400

$181,000,000

New Zealand 

0.915

 4,709,880

 2,354,940

$118,000,000

Sweden 

0.913

 9,906,331

 4,953,166

$248,000,000

Liechtenstein

0.912

 37,340

 18,670

$1,000,000

United Kingdom 

0.909

 65,110,000

 32,555,000

$1,628,000,000

Japan 

0.903

 127,110,047

 63,555,024

$3,178,000,000

South Korea 

0.901

 50,801,405

 25,400,703

$1,271,000,000

Israel 

0.899

 8,541,000

 4,270,500

$214,000,000

Luxembourg 

0.898

 576,249

 288,125

$15,000,000

France 

0.897

 66,736,000

 33,368,000

$1,669,000,000

Belgium

0.896

 11,250,585

 5,625,293

$282,000,000

Finland 

0.895

 5,488,543

 2,744,272

$138,000,000

Austria

0.893

 8,725,931

 4,362,966

$219,000,000

Slovenia 

0.89

 2,063,077

 1,031,539

$52,000,000

Italy 

0.887

 60,674,003

 30,337,002

$1,517,000,000

Spain 

0.884

 46,423,064

 23,211,532

$1,161,000,000

Czech Republic 

0.878

 10,553,443

 5,276,722

$264,000,000

Greece 

0.866

 10,955,000

 5,477,500

$274,000,000

Brunei

0.865

 415,717

 207,859

$11,000,000

Estonia 

0.865

 1,315,944

 657,972

$33,000,000

Andorra

0.858

 85,470

 42,735

$3,000,000

Cyprus

0.856

 1,141,166

 570,583

$29,000,000

Malta

0.856

 445,426

 222,713

$12,000,000

Qatar

0.856

 2,545,603

 1,272,802

$64,000,000

Poland

0.855

 38,483,957

 19,241,979

$963,000,000

Lithuania 

0.848

 2,866,935

 1,433,468

$72,000,000

Chile

0.847

 18,006,407

 9,003,204

$451,000,000

Saudi Arabia

0.847

 30,770,375

 15,385,188

$770,000,000

Slovakia 

0.845

 5,426,252

 2,713,126

$136,000,000

Portugal 

0.843

 10,341,330

 5,170,665

$259,000,000

United Arab Emirates

0.84

 5,779,760

 2,889,880

$145,000,000

Hungary

0.836

 9,855,571

 4,927,786

$247,000,000

Latvia

0.83

 1,973,700

 986,850

$50,000,000

Argentina

0.827

 43,417,000

 21,708,500

$1,086,000,000

Croatia

0.827

 4,190,700

 2,095,350

$105,000,000

Bahrain

0.824

 1,378,000

 689,000

$35,000,000

Montenegro

0.807

 676,872

 338,436

$17,000,000

Russian Federation

0.804

 143,440,000

 71,720,000

$3,587,000,000

Romania

0.802

 19,200,000

 9,600,000

$480,000,000

Kuwait

0.8

 4,348,395

 2,174,198

$109,000,000

Click here to see the list on the UN website

HDI explained

1,352,143,978 citizens are living in Very High HDI countries

678,246,187 will be provided access to clean water and will become self-sustainable

$33,937,000,000

(All numbers have been rounded up to nearest Million

 

 

Annexure B - Undertaking Projects

Your government is recommended to choose from the below list of International NGOs which may have a local office in your country to undertake your funded projects. 

Alternatively, your government can choose other preferred NGOs considering their admin costs vs their impact per dollar and we can add them to the above list.

We ask your government to make it mandatory for the participating NGOs to add the below details marked with * for every project on EssentialNeed.org for public information in the light of centralized reporting, transparency, accountability, and cost comparison for better decision making. 

  1. Project location*
  2. Solution type*
  3. Life of solution*
  4. Number of beneficiaries*
  5. Project cost*
  6. Estimated total litres of water made available from the life of solution
  7. Project start, finish time
  8. Update on level of project funding (is the project already funded and/or requires more funding)
  9. Are there other project sponsors
  10. Project Manager contact details
  11. Implementing partner
  12. Is this project classified as an Urgent Project (Urgent Projects ensure the right direction to end water poverty)
  13. Are there local government involvements
  14. Other relevant/important information on nature of project – e.g. maintenance, employees, etc
  15. Contact detail of someone in the community (may be used for tourism purposes to boost local economy)

 

We use the information in (3), (4) and (5), to estimate the cost of clean water per beneficiary per day. For example, for a project that has the following attributes:

The cost of clean water for one day per beneficiary is:

Cost per day for all beneficiaries: $25,000 / 7,300 = $3.43

Cost per beneficiary per day: $3.43 / 500 = $0.007

 

With this unit of measurement better decisions can be made, accountability can increase, transparency will shine, public’s trust will be strengthened. 

 

 

 

Annexure C - The Impact

By ensuring your country takes up its important role – benefits will include;


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