"[The] Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water ... provided a platform for African countries, the international community and UN agencies to reaffirm their commitment to solving Africa’s water crisis and ... [its] targets include halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and without access to basic sanitation by 2015 and developing integrated water resource management (IWRM) and water efficiency plans by 2005." (Quoted from paper)