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Water and sanitation targets
feature under environmental
sustainability - Goal 7 - of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The wording calls on governments
to "halve, by 2015, the
proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe
drinking water and sanitation".
A source which separates the
delivery of drinking water from
potential contamination, such as
a piped supply or a protected
well or spring, is deemed to be
“safe”. Interpretation of
“access” has varied between
countries but generally refers
to a household supply of 20
litres that can be fetched
within a 30 minute round trip, a
distance of about 1 km.
Whilst therefore modest in
ambition, the drinking water
target is one of the few success
stories of the MDG programme.
Aggregate global coverage has
advanced from 77% to 87% between
1990 and 2006, not far short of
the 2015 target of 89% and
bringing down the total number
of people without access to less
than 900 million. In urban
areas, coverage is over 95%.
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