Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Africa water, Sanitation May-June2015 Vol. 10 No.3 | Page 3

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GUEST EDITORIAL

Message by Achim Steiner, UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director
of the UN Environment Programme
Living in an increasingly globalized world, inhabited by 7 billion people, it is easy to
underestimate the power of individual action. The annual World Environment Day
reminds people across the globe that it is our personal choices that shape the world
around us. Our daily decisions as consumers, multiplied by billions, have a colossal
impact on the environment – some of them contribute to the further depletion
of natural resources, others help to protect fragile ecosystems. Every time the
choice