Sec. 6. United States strategy to increase appropriate long-term sustainability and access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene
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Section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as redesignated and amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than October 1, 2017, and every 5 years thereafter, the President, acting through the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate, shall submit a single government-wide Global Water Strategy to the appropriate congressional committees that provides a detailed description of how the United States intends— to increase access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene in high priority countries designated pursuant to subsection (h), including a summary of the WASH Needs Index and the specific weighting of data and other assumptions used to develop and rank countries on the WASH Needs Index; to improve the management of water resources and watersheds in such countries; and to work to prevent and resolve, to the greatest degree possible, both intra- and trans-boundary conflicts over water resources in such countries.
The Global Water Strategy shall include an agency-specific plan— from the United States Agency for International Development that describes specifically how the Agency for International Development will— carry out the duties and responsibilities assigned to the Global Water Coordinator under subsection (e)(1); ensure that the Agency for International Development’s projects and programs authorized under this section are designed to achieve maximum impact and long-term sustainability, including by implementing the requirements described in subsection (f); and increase access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene in high priority countries designated pursuant to subsection (h); from the Department of State that describes specifically how the Department of State will— carry out the duties and responsibilities assigned to the Special Coordinator for Water Resources under subsection (e)(2); and ensure that the Department’s activities authorized under this section are designed— to improve management of water resources and watersheds in countries designated pursuant to subsection (h); and to prevent and resolve, to the greatest degree possible, both intra- and trans-boundary conflicts over water resources in such countries; and from other Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate, that describes the contributions of the departments and agencies to implementing the Global Water Strategy.
For each high priority country designated pursuant to subsection (h), the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall— develop a costed, evidence-based, and results-oriented plan that— seeks to achieve the purposes of this section; and meets the requirements under subsection (f); and include such plan in an appendix to the Global Water Strategy required under paragraph (1). The Global Water Strategy shall specifically describe the target percentage of funding for each fiscal year covered by such strategy to be directed toward projects aimed at providing first-time access to safe water and sanitation.
The Global Water Strategy shall include specific and measurable goals, benchmarks, performance metrics, timetables, and monitoring and evaluation plans required to be developed by the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development pursuant to subsection (e)(1)(B)(v). The Global Water Strategy shall— be developed in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies; and incorporate best practices from the international development community.
In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate ; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives . . Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit an agency-specific plan to the appropriate congressional committees (as defined in section 136(k) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by subsection (a)) that meets the requirements of section 136(j)(2)(B) of such Act, as added by subsection (a).
Section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ; 22 U.S.C. 2152h note) is repealed.
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United States strategy to increase appropriate long-term sustainability and access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene
Pub. L.Pub. L. 109-121
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