What does the UNs Millennium Declaration say?
In the Millennium Declaration, 2000, delivered at the close of the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in New York, 150 heads of state and government pledged to “halve, by the year 2015… the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water”. The Johannesburg Declaration adopted at the World Summit of Sustainable Development in September 2002 also set a new target of halving the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation by 2015.
