Sec. 3. Sense of Congress
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Congress finds the following: In May 2013, the United States Agency for International Development released a Water and Development Strategy, whose goal is to save lives and advance development through improvements in water supply, sanitation, and hygiene
(WASH)programs, and through sound management and use of water for food security. . The Water and Development Strategy states that it supports the efforts of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 by advancing many activities consistent with the goals of the Act. . It is the sense of Congress that— the initial United States Agency for International Development’s Water and Development Strategy, released in May 2013— is a significant accomplishment and improves the Agency’s capacity to provide sustainable and effective water, sanitation, and hygiene assistance; is supportive of and should continue to reinforce the United States foreign policy and development objectives for clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; should be refined and expanded by the United States Agency for International Development as often as necessary to ensure best practices are used and the purposes of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ; 119 Stat. 2533) and this Act are met, should target the world’s poorest and those suffering from the lowest levels of access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene, and should be updated by the Agency not later than every 5 years, to more fully meet the requirements and spirit of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and section 135 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2152h ), as added by section 5(a) of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005; and is not, on its own, the holistic United States water strategy required by the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, but instead addresses components of a comprehensive strategy for how the United States plans to support the United States foreign policy and development objectives and measure its success towards the objectives required by the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and this Act, and must be complimented by the development of a whole-of-government United States Government global water strategy aimed at creating an enabling environment through diplomatic channels for the Agency’s water, sanitation, and hygiene programming that will better allow the Agency to succeed in its mission; and the Secretary of State, acting through the Special Advisor for Water Resources (established by 136(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961), as added by section 5(a)(2)(C) of this Act, and in collaboration and consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, should develop a Global Water Resources Strategy relating to United States foreign policy objectives for water, pursuant to section 6(a) of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, as added by section 7 of this Act, that— articulates a vision for the role played by the Department of State, including in its power as a convener, in addressing the foreign policy and national security issues identified in the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and this Act, the 2012 National Intelligence Estimate on Global Water Security, and other relevant whole-of-government assessments, strategies, and approaches; is an ambitious United States foreign policy framework that advances the objectives of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and this Act to provide sustainable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene to poor and marginalized people through improved United States diplomatic efforts to build political will and coordination across the Federal Government to better enable United States Government agencies and partners to meet their international development objectives; is complementary to, supportive of, and does not inhibit, the Water and Development Strategy, and establishes clear roles and responsibilities insofar as possible among Federal agencies and departments responsible for jointly carrying out the strategy, as required by section 6(b) of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, as added by section 7 of this Act.
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- Pub. L. 109-121
- 119 Stat. 2533
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