The Water Diary sponsored by Veolia Environnement Veolia Environnement has choosen to support Jane Campion's film "The Water Diary", and through it the feature film "8", to highlight the company's resolve to help raise awareness of the vital need to improve living conditions on our planet in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals. The film echoes Veola Water's commitment to preserving water resources and providing access to clean water for all.
a. Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
b. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
c. Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
a. Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
b. Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
a. Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
b. Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
c. Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
a. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
b. Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
c. Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
d. Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
a. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
b. Address the special needs of the least developed countries
c. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
d. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
e. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
f. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications