Progress on sanitation and drinking-water
Subtitle: 2013 update
Contributors: UNICEF; WHO/UNICEF Joint Water Supply and Sanitation Monitoring Programme
Publisher: World Health Organization; UNICEF
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Geneva; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789241505390
Subjects: Drinking water; Water-supply; Standards; Sewage; Purification
Other titles: Progress on sanitation and drinking-water, 2013 update
Description: The world remains off track to meet the MDG target on sanitation. This calls for halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population without sustainable access to basic sanitation. This is despite the fact that between 1990 and 2011, nearly 1.9 billion people gained access to improved sanitation. 2013 progress report also focuses on open defecation. 1 billion people still practise open defecation, although this number dropped slightly since the 2012 report. Finally in this report, JMP summarizes the process of the formulation of post-2015 WASH targets and indicators.