MDG and safe water
 

The global challenge: Goals and targets

The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one or more targets have been set, most for 2015, using 1990 as a benchmark:

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Target 10:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

Indicator 29. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source

HDR DATA

More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than two billion lack sanitation. During the 1990s, however, nearly one billion people gained access to safe water and the same number to sanitation.

UNDP, in collaboration with national governments, is coordinating reporting by countries on progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals. The framework for reporting includes eight goals -- based on the UN Millennium Declaration. For each goal there is one or more specific target, along with specific social, economic and environmental indicators used to track progress towards the goals.