Advocacy Project: Healthy People/THOMAS

My Healthy People 2010 Goal:
I wasn't really sure what type of objective I was looking for when I started working on this advocacy project, but the moment that I found 8-29 I knew that I wanted to focus on this objective.  The 8-29 objective reads:  To reduce the global burden of disease due to poor water quality, sanitation, and personal and domestic hygiene.   I was really moved by the documentary we watched on water rights, which is why this objective stuck out to me.  I believe that everyone should have access to clean water at very low cost, should have sanitary standards where they live, and resources available to them for sanitary products, and on that same note personal and domestic hygiene goes hand in hand with access to good water, and sanitary resources.  
From the information off of the objectives and sub-objectives , I found that 8-29 has had no change in objective.  Great improvements have been made as you can see from the target figure below.  The following information on objective 8-29 was found from the World Health Report 2003, World Health Organization.  

	Target: 2,135,000 deaths. Baseline: 2,668,200 deaths worldwide were attributable to these factors in 1990. Target setting method: 20 percent improvement. Data source: World Health Report 2003, World Health Organization.

What's Happening:

161% - Met target 

Out of Healthy People 2010 under the Environmental Health category , nine objectives and sub-objectives either met or exceeded their targets.  8-29 (my goal) was one of those nine!  This is great but I believe that progress needs to continually happen.  I have chosen goal 8-29 because I want to dig a little deeper into this goal, and look into what is happening in our nation when it comes to disease due to poor water quality, sanitation, and personal and domestic hygiene. 

Related THOMAS Bill:

H.R. 2030 

Title: To provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act 2005.

Sponsor: Rep Blumenauer, Earl [OR-3] (introduced 4/22/2009) Cosponsors (69)

Related Bills: S.624

Latest Major Action: 4/22/2009 Referred to House Committee.  Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Recommendation: Vote_____(indicate Yes or No) for H.R. 2030.

My Political Representative: Congressman David Obey.