ABSTRACT
77Goal Seven of the Millennium Development Goals aims at halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. In the beginning of 2012, it was, however, announced that the world had already met this goal well in advance of the 2015 deadline. 31 But what does sustainable access to safe drinking water actually mean? While safe drinking water refers to the quality of the water, sustainable access means that the water source is less than 1 kilometre away from its place of use, and that it is possible to obtain at least 20 litres of water per member of a household per day – according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Sustainable access to safe drinking water thus becomes a question of water quality as well as water quantity.
