Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country.
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.