[EQ] Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-water: 2010 Update

Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-water: 2010 Update.

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP)
ISBN 978 92 4 156395 6 (NLM classification: WA 670)

The report confirms that advances continue to be made towards greater access to safe drinking-water.

Available online [60p.] at: http://www.unwater.org/downloads/JMP_report_2010.pdf

“……Progress in relation to access to basic sanitation is however insufficient to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation.

Purpose and scope of this report This report describes the status and trends with respect to the use of safe drinking-water and basic sanitation, and progress made towards the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target.

 

As the world approaches 2015, it becomes increasingly important to identify who are being left behind and to focus on the challenges of addressing their needs.

 

This report presents some striking disparities: the gap between progress in providing access to drinking-water versus sanitation; the divide between urban and rural populations in terms of the services provided; differences in the way different regions are performing, bearing in mind that they started from different baselines; and disparities between different socioeconomic strata in society….”

 

Content:

Introduction

Status and progress towards the MDG target

Billions without improved sanitation

Millions without improved sources of drinking-water

Sanitation: world off track for MDG target

Sanitation ladder: global and regional trends

Drinking-water ladder: global and regional trends

Urban-rural disparities

Sanitation: urban-rural disparities

Drinking-water: urban-rural disparities

A closer look at the ladders

Open defecation

Shared and unimproved sanitation facilities

Piped water on premises and other improved sources of drinking-water

Additional perspectives

Time to collect drinking-water

Collection of drinking-water: gender disparities

Socioeconomic disparities: Sub-Saharan Africa

JMP method Joint Monitoring Programme

Statistical table

Progress on sanitation and drinking-water: country, regional and global estimates for 1990, 2000 and 2008

Annexes

Annex A Millennium Development Goals: regional groupings

Annex B Global and regional sanitation ladders: urban and rural

Annex C Global and regional drinking-water ladders: urban and rural

 

 

 

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