Meeting the MDG drinking water and sanitation target : the urban and rural challenge of the decade.

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 bi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: WHO/UNICEF Joint Water Supply and Sanitation Monitoring Programme
World Health Organization
UNICEF
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland : New York : World Health Organization ; United Nations Children's Fund, [2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description:1 electronic resource (41 pages) : PDF file.
Also issued in print.
Variant Title:
Meeting the millennium development goals drinking water and sanitation target.
Format: Electronic eBook
Partial Contents:
  • 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.