Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation

This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. The report also introduces a separate assessment of global, regional and country progress using the “sanitation ladder”–a new way of analyzing sanitation practices that highlights trends in using improved, shared and unimproved sanitation facilities and the trend in open defecation. Tren