...civil society. (21) Target 10 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. (22) The participants in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South...

...into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources. Halve by 201 5 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 1 00 million slum dwellers....

...staff as well as external seasoned professionals. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY TARGET: Halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015 INDICATOR: Improved water source (percent of population without access) DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP...

...agreed on a set of Millennium Development Goals. One of the specific targets identified was to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 20l5. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002, another relevant target was...

...rate; halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other 'major diseases'; halving 'the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water'). Included among the eight goals are 'to promote gender equality and empower women', mainly through improving...

...the spread of tuberculosis MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Reversing the loss of forests Halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water Halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation Improving the lives...

...country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources 0: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers...

...translated into 18 targets for the 21s1 century (Table 1.3). These range from halving extreme poverty to halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to enrolling all boys and girls everywhere in primary schools by...

...million slum dwellers by 2020 will depend in part on improved provision for water and sanitation, so halving the proportion of people without “sustainable access to safe drinking water” and “basic” sanitation by 2015 will depend in part on urban households that are able to move to...

...$3 billion a year, equal to about 15 percent of all World Bank lending. The challenge of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion...sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015 is daunting. In February 2003, the Bank endorsed a new Water Respurces Strategy aimed at providing...