Is it realistic to believe the MDG drinking water and sanitation target can be reached?
English (mp3) | Français (mp3) | Castellano (mp3) To meet the Millennium Development Goal sanitation target, 1.6 billion more people need to gain access to improved sanitation over the coming decade. This means that according to our projections that if we continue in the same trend – if the trend persists – the sanitation target will not be met. Probably we will miss it by 600 million. With regard to drinking water, we want to achieve a total number of people served globally equals to 6.4 billion by 2015, this means a reduction in the number of unserved from 1.1 billion in 2004 to 800 million in 2015. The projections indicate a total number of unserved over 900 million in 2015. This represents a shift from past assessments, and is indicating there has been possibly a reduction in the efforts towards the target. If this trend is confirmed, we will not meet the drinking water target either.
