New report warns that vicious cycle of ill-health and poverty could defeat human development efforts, with children the first to suffer. New York/Geneva - More than 2.6 billion people – over 40 per cent of the world's population – do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water, warns a report recently released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.
For details, please see:
Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: A mid-term assessment of progress
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp2004/en/
For details, please see:
Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: A mid-term assessment of progress
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp2004/en/