24/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - At a symposium held as part of World Water Week, which is taking place this week in Stockholm, the director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Anders Berntell, pointed out that today, one person out of every five has no access to a source of clean and safe water. Mr Berntell, quoted by IPS, criticised the fact that the draft final document of the UN Summit of next September devotes no more than a small asterisk to the problem of water, whereas the Swedish Minister for the environment, Lena Sommestad, pledged that the Swedish delegation to the United Nations would bring pressure to bear for the problem of water to be made more of a priority. Buyelwa Sonjica, the South African minister in charge of water and forestry, pointed out- also quoted by IPS- that 21 of the driest countries in the world are in Africa, a country which, paradoxically, has two of the longest rivers on earth, the Nile and the Congo.