...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 2015. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002, another relevant target was set:...

...these diseases by 2015. • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability. The target is to cut in half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development. The target is to provide access to affordable...

...country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources; second, the halving of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015; third, the achievement of a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers...

...water, as many as 135 million people will die from these diseases 2020". Even if (now looking unlikelyl the Millennium Development Goal of "halving the proportion...without sustainable access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation" by 201 5 is met, then "34-76 million people will perish". These are the awful...

...for overall economic development, continued growth in electric power is particularly relevant. The goal of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015 was broadened during the Sustainable Development Summit in Johannesburg. It now includes the goal of...

...had already set forth the Millennium Development Goals. These included, in particular, the objective of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. The International Year of Freshwater was held in 2003, which further helped to publicize the seriousness...

...goals that include halving the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar per day and the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. Forty per cent of the world's population, in 80 countries, currently suffer from serious water shortages....

...communities—from the HIV/AIDS pandemic to pervasive gender inequality and grinding poverty—why has halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services been singled out as critical? The imperative of dramatically expanding...

...into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources. 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....

...into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources. 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....