Title: Progress on sanitation and drinking-water
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.
Subjects: Drinking water, Water-supply, Standards, Sewage, Purification