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The full title of Target 6.1 is: "By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all". [ 2 ] This target has one indicator: Indicator 6.1.1 is the "Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services".
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation reported that 663 million people did not have access to improved sources of drinking water and more than 2.4 billion people lacked access to basic sanitation services in 2015. [15] Access to clean water is a major problem for many parts of the world.
In Water Resource Policy, covenants and declarations are nonbinding goals for reaching universal human access to water for drinking and sanitation purposes. The United Nations has adopted three covenants and declarations: the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights , the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , and the 1966 ...
Access to drinking water is included in Target 6.1 of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which states: "By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all." [13] This target has one indicator: Indicator 6.1.1 is the "Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services."
In 2011, the additional number of people who could access water and sanitation thanks to WaterAid's programme is 259,000 and 536,000 respectively. WaterAid is currently working with the Bangladesh government to build the National Sanitation Strategy, which would help them to reach universal access to sanitation by 2015.
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has launched an initiative to use microcredits to promote these enterprises. As part of this initiative, the commercial microfinance bank K-Rep Bank provided loans to 21 community-managed water projects. The Global Partnership on Output-based Aid (GPOBA) supported the programme by providing partial subsidies.
Globally, by 2015, 89% of people had access to water from a source that is suitable for drinking – called improved water sources. [26] In sub-Saharan Africa, access to potable water ranged from 40% to 80% of the population. Nearly 4.2 billion people worldwide had access to tap water, while another 2.4 billion had access to wells or public ...
A similar definition of water security by UN-Water is: "the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for ...