UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the successful efforts to provide greater access to drinking water are a testament to all who see the MDGs not as a dream, but as a vital tool for improving the lives of millions of the poorest people.
According to a report by the World Health Organisation by UNICEF, they are over 780 million people are still without access to improved sources of drinking water and 2.5 billion lack improved sanitation.
The World Health Organsation says if current trends continue, the numbers will remain high in 2015, where over 605 million people will be without an improved drinking water source and 2.4 billion people will lack access to improved sanitation.
Many countries are off track in meeting the MDG sanitation target, including much of sub-Saharan Africa and several countries in Asia.
The report also discusses the beginnings of a process to develop new water, sanitation and hygiene goals.
An alternative indicator has been developed to measure progress in sanitation which will represent the proportion of the current population that gained access between1995 and 2010.
But certain individual countries have achieved these desired proportions of populations that have achieved sustainable access to safe drinking water.
Some of these countries are notably, Rwanda, Angola Cape Verde, Gambia, Botswana and Malawi.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the remarkable countries for having added 10 million new users of improved sanitation facilities.
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