Every Year, the United Nations and Governments around the world celebrates World Water day. This year's celebration was quite interesting. It started off with a March in town of all concerned organisations and Institutions that are working towards having the service delivery of safe drinking water to the inhabitants of Sierra Leone.

On Saturday, I was part of the Delegates for the Stakeholders Conference hosted by the Minister of Water Resources. In this Stakeholders conference, It was quite important to note the statistics given by the Minister of water Resources which states that Presently our nation has only 35% of the population that have access to safe drinking water and that Government has decided to up this percentage by 75% next year with various projects implemented by Government and its partners.

Critically looking at this, in a population of only 6 million people, why is that only 35% have access to safe drinking water? I remember quite recently, I wrote an articles on the growing number of water companies in Sierra Leone, is it that the purification mechanisms are out of place or too expensive? What Can I do as an ambassador to prevent this unfortunate situation?

My team and I have decided that we shall join the WASHNET consortitum that is a composition all the foreign NGOs in Sierra Leone to advocate and lobby for the achievement of such a target set up by the government. Water is such an essential component of human existence that we cannot live without it. As this year's theme is Water and Energy, I implore all ambassadors to use their energy in the Campaign for safe drinking water in their countries.