2.5
billion There are 2.5 billion people lacking access to improved sanitation facilities.
Millennium
Development Goal 7 : Ensure environmental sustainability
Target
: Halve,
by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Sanitation, which is critical to safeguarding against infection and undernutrition,
is an area that urgently requires greater attention.
Although global sanitation coverage has increased
from 54 per cent in 1990 to 62 per cent in 2006,
almost half of the developing world’s population
– approximately 2.5 billion people – continues
to live without access to improved sanitation facilities.
Source: UNICEF
and World Health Organization (WHO), Joint Monitoring
Programme
