The world never actually reached safe-water goal

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2964, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hundreds of millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water. This century's first great success for public health was a figment of the United Nations' imagination. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared in 2012 that a UN Millennium Development Goal--to "halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water"--had been met. But now the WHO's own journal admits the claim does not stand up. The problem is that they don't have global data on the cleanliness of drinking water, says study leader Joe Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. So the WHO chose another goal: to halve the number of people lacking access to "improved" water supplies.