Resources Introduction
In this section, you will find documents and links that you can easily search by category (water / sanitation) and year as well as by terms found in the title and summary. These resources provide valuable information at country, regional and global level.
The latest JMP estimates tell us:
768 million people do not use an improved source of drinking-water [read more…]
- The world met the MDG target for drinking-water.
- 2.1 billion people gained access to improved sources for drinking-water since 1990. Over 70% of the global progress was achieved through access to piped drinking-water.
- In developing regions, 87% of the population uses an improved source of drinking-water.
- Although 1.2 billion people gained access in the urban areas of the developing world, due to the urban population growth the percentage gain is only 2% since 1990.
- Over 8 out of 10 people who do not use an improved source of drinking–water live in rural areas.
- In Sub–Saharan Africa 63 million more people use an unimproved source of drinking-water in 2011 than 1990, an increase of 24%.
2.5 billion people do not use improved sanitation [read more…]
- Within the developing world (without counting India and China) in 2011, 870 million people have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990, but there is a 12% increase of population using unimproved facilities in this region for the same 21-year period.
- Open defecation rates have decreased from 24% in 1990 to 15% in 2011. Worldwide, 1 billion people practise open defecation, a decline of 244 million since 1990.
- With only 47% of the rural population using improved sanitation, rural areas lag far behind urban areas where the rate is 80%.
- As in the previous 2012 JMP progress report, the 2013 JMP update report also shows that seven out of ten people without improved sanitation live in rural areas.
- The number of people in urban areas without improved sanitation increased by 196 million people between 1990 and 2011 because of urban population growth.