UN's Millennium Development Goals are badly off track in meeting the sanitation demands of more than two billion people.
Hundreds of millions of people will still not have access to sanitation by 2015 as the UN's Millennium Development Goals are "badly off track" on this topic, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday.
"We are badly off track" to meet the MDG on improvements in sanitation, WHO coordinator for water, sanitation and health Jamie Bartram told journalists in Geneva.
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A UN reports states that more than two billion people around the world still lack adequate sanitation.
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"At the current trends, and there is no reason to believe these trends will change, we will miss the target by about 700 million people in 2015," mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, he said.
Speaking at the launch of a joint report by the WHO and UNICEF, Bartram said the outlook was more positive for drinking water.
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Safer Water for Better Health is the first-ever report providing country-by-country estimates of the burden of disease due to poor water, sanitation and hygiene.
Safer Water for Better Health is the first-ever report providing country-by-country estimates of the burden of disease due to poor water, sanitation and hygiene.
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