World Summit for Children, Goal 4
for children and development in the
1990s
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Universal access to safe drinking
water
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Trend
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3 percentage point increase with 816 million additional
people now having access
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1990
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79% (4.1 billion)
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2000
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82% (5 billion)
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2010 goal
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33% increase
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Comments
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1.1 billion people still lack access.
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| Sources:United Nations,Report of the Secretary-
General,‘We the Children:End-decade review of the follow-up
to the World Summit for Children ’,A/S-27/3, United Nations,New
York,4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for
the Spec al Session of the General Assembly on Children,
‘A world fit for children ’, Rev sed draft outcome document
A/AC-256/ CRP.6/Rev.3,United Nations,New York, June 2001. |
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