Section 9: Right to Water and Sanitation 444- The Sustainable Development Goal 6 provides, “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”289. As contained in the previous Report (§ 411), the State had already streamlined its action in this direction by setting the target in the GESP at75% of people expected to have access to drinking water by 2020290. The national liquid sanitation strategy adopted in August 2011 targeted a national coverage increase rate from 34% in 2008 to 57% in 2021. In a bid to achieve the said objective, focus was geared towards enhancing water supply and liquid sanitation coverage. §1: Enhancing Water Supply 445- Water supply strategy was adjusted depending on whether it concerned urban, suburban or rural areas. A: Water Supply in Urban and Suburban Areas 446- The evaluation of the implementation of the water supply lease contract resulted in the development of an institutional framework. Besides, different projects helped increase the production capacity and extend the supply network. 1: Development of an Institutional Framework 447- The development of an institutional framework aims at setting up a balanced drinking water production and distribution chain. Thus, at the end of the lease contract between the State (leasing authority) – Camwater (concessionaire) – CDE (leaseholder)291, the organizational set up of CAMWATER was amended pursuant to Decree No. 2018/144 of 20 February 2018 to reorganised the Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation to enable it not only to manage the rights and properties allocated for public drinking water supply, but also to exploit the production, transportation and distribution of drinking water in urban and suburban areas (See article 3 of the Decree). 2: Increase in the Network Production and Extension Capacity 448- The production capacity increased in the urban and suburban areas. CAMWATER used its projects to enhance drinking water supply by increasing the production capacity from 498,936m3 in 2012 to 721,080m3 in 2017, representing an increase of 211,144m3/day. The production capacity in the CAMWATER Centres helped supply water to 14,421,600 persons 289 The challenges are still many and include:  2.1 billion people, about 30% of the world population are not connected to home drinking water services, and 4.5 billion people, about 60% do not have access to properly managed sanitation services in 2015;  1.8 billion people use a water source contaminated by faecal matter, thereby risking an outbreak of cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and poliomyelitis;  half a billion people experience acute water shortage throughout the year; and  20% of world aquifers are over-exploited. 290 As part of the implementation of Law No. 2004/17 of 22 July 2004 to lay down the orientation of decentralization that devotes among others, the transfer of powers and resources to councils, a document entitled “Guide on the exercise of powers transferred by the State to Councils” was drawn up in 2016 in collaboration with the Special Council Support Fund (FEICOM) and financed by the German Cooperation (GIZ). 291 The Camerounaise des Eaux that started its activities on 2 May 2008 and that will run for a period of 10 years is expected to carry out public water supply in Cameroon within a perimeter covering 110 urban and suburban areas. 77