Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals
Opinion paper
, 2 pages
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Language:
English
Published: January 2003
Sustainable Development Opinion Papers
Product code:11043IIED
Most of the world’s governments and international agencies have committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, one of which is to achieve environmental sustainability. The water target set in relation to ‘environmental sustainability’ is: To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development added a sanitation target: To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation
Cite this publication
McGranahan, G., Satterthwaite, D., Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals and Thompson, J.
(2003).
Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals.
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