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Meeting the MDG drinking water and sanitation target : the urban and rural challenge of the decade
- Title
- Meeting the MDG drinking water and sanitation target : the urban and rural challenge of the decade.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization ; New York : United Nations Children's Fund, c2006.
- Description
- 41 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
- URL
- http://www.who.int/water%5Fsanitation%5Fhealth/monitoring/jmp2006/en/
- Other contributors
- WHO/UNICEF Joint Water Supply and Sanitation Monitoring Programme. World Health Organization. UNICEF.
- Variant title
- Meeting the millennium development goals drinking water and sanitation target
- Notes
- "This report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) is concerned with the MDG target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation"--P. 4. Also available via the World Wide Web.
- Partial contents
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- Challenge for the Water for life decade
- Drinking water coverage
- Drinking water trends over 2005-2015
- Urban/rural disparities in access to drinking water
- Urban and rural drinking water in the Water for Life decade
- Sanitation coverage
- Sanitation trands over the Water for Life Decade
- Urban/rural disparities in access to sanitation
- Urban and rural sanitation perspectives
- Monitoring drinking water and sanitation
- JMP mission statement
- Country, regional and global drinking water and sanitation coverage, 1990 and 2004
- Reaching the MDG drinking water and sanitation target : regional and global status in 1990 and 2004, and efforts requires in 2005-2015
- MDG regional groupings.
- Summary
- Safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene are fundamental to health, survival, growth and development. However, these basic necessities are still a luxury for many of the world s poor people. Over 1.1 billion of our fellow citizens do not use drinking water from improved sources, while 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. Safe drinking water and basic sanitation are so obviously essential to health that they risk being taken for granted. Efforts to prevent death from diarrhoea or to reduce the burden of such diseases as ascaris, dracunculiasis, hookworm, schistosomiasis and trachoma are doomed to failure unless people have access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Lack of basic sanitation indirectly inhibits the learning abilities of millions of school-aged children who are infested with intestinal worms transmitted through inadequate sanitation facilities and poor hygiene. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set us on a common course to push back poverty, inequality, hunger and illness. The world has pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Entering the International Decade for Action, Water for Life, 2005-2015, this report looks at the challenge of meeting the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation. Achieving the MDG drinking water and sanitation target poses two major challenges: a rapid pace of urbanization, which requires a major effort even to keep up the current coverage levels; a huge backlog of rural people unserved with basic sanitation and safe drinking water, which calls for an intensive mobilization of resources to reduce the vast coverage gap between urban and rural populations.--Publisher's description.
- Subject headings
- Water-supply--Statistics. Water-supply--Developing countries. Sanitation--Statistics. Sanitation--Developing countries. Drinking water--Standards. Water quality management--Evaluation.
- Medical subjects
- Potable Water. Sanitation. Water Supply.
- ISBN
- 9241563257 9789241563253