Year of publication: 2010

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation -Geneva, CH, JMP (2010). Progress on sanitation and drinking-water : 2010 update. Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization (WHO) ; New York, NY, USA, UNICEF. – ISBN 9789241563956. - 55 p. : fig., tab.

This report presents the current status and trends in 209 countries or territories towards reaching the drinking-water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target, along with an assessment as to what these trends reveal. The report includes information from household surveys and censuses completed during the period 1985–2008. A record number of nearly 300 datasets were added to the global database for this year’s report. Importantly, the newer data have not yet registered the impact of the International Year of Sanitation (2008), which it is hoped will make a significant difference to the rate of progress towards the MDG sanitation target. The report provides the clearest picture to date of the current use of improved sanitation facilities and improved sources of drinking-water throughout the world. It registers disparities between urban and rural areas and between the poor and non-poor. The report is aimed to be used by policy-makers, donors, governmental and nongovernmental agencies to decide what needs to be done and where to focus their efforts to achieve these goals.

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