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World Summit for Children

Goal 4
For children and development in the 1990s

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Universal access to safe drinking water

 

Trend

3 percentage point increase with 816 million additional people now having access

1990

79% (4.1 billion)

2000

82% (5 billion)

2010 goal

33% increase

Comments

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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