Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the Way Forward in Light of the Millennium Development Goals

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 (see https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.un.org/millenniumgoals/). A water target set in relation to ‘environmental sustainability’ is:

To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.