Asia Water Watch 2015: Are Countries in Asia on Track to Meet Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals?

Abstract

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reflect the global community’s commitment to reduce poverty over the next decade, a period designated by the United Nations as the Decade of Water for Life. One of the targets for Goal 7—Target 10—identifies access to adequate and safe water and improved sanitation as fundamental to poverty reduction. Target 10 calls for halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation.