About 72 per cent of the rural population and 40 per cent of the people in urban areas in Balochistan were without the minimum required sanitation facilities, says Balochistan Minister for Local Government Mir Abdul Majeed Bizenjo. Addressing a seminar jointly organised by the IUCN, Unicef and the Balochistan government in connection with the World Water Day here on Tuesday, he said a provincial sanitation policy and action plan had been approved and it would soon be implemented. He said that the government was trying to achieve the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals regarding improvement in sanitation. Mir Bizenjo said that most areas in Balochistan faced long dry spells and people faced shortage of water. "NGOs