Progress on sanitation and drinking-water : 2014 update / World Health Organization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

World Health Organization.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking water--Standards.

Drinking water.

Millennium Development Goals.

Water-supply--Statistics.

Water-supply.

Sanitation--Statistics.

Sanitation.

Water Supply--statistics & numerical data.

Drinking Water.

Sanitation--statistics & numerical data.

Medical Subjects:

Water Supply--statistics & numerical data.

Drinking Water.

Sanitation--statistics & numerical data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2014 update report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation known as the JMP is split in three sections. The first section presents the status of and trends in access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation. The second section provides a snapshot of inequalities in access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation. The final section presents efforts to strengthen monitoring of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services under a post-2015 development agenda as well as the challenges associated with these efforts. Annexes at the

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; SECTION A: PROGRESS UPDATE; Global drinking water coverage and trends, 1990-2012; Regional drinking water coverage and increase since 1990; An alternative indicator of progress; Progress towards the MDG drinking water target; Global sanitation coverage and trends, 1990-2012; Regional sanitation coverage and increase since 1990; Progress towards the MDG sanitation target; Trends in open defecation, 1990-2012; Call to action on sanitation; SECTION B: HIGHLIGHTING INEQUALITIES; Visualizing inequalities; Subnational inequalities

Urban and rural inequalitiesUrban-Rural Gap Analysis; Inequalities within urban areas; Inequalities within rural areas; Inequalities based on wealth; Quintile Gap Analysis; Inequalities faced by marginalized and excluded groups or persons; Ethnicity, language and religion; Education; Intra-household inequalities; The challenge of monitoring intra-household inequalities; Conclusions; SECTION C: A FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING WASH POST-2015; Universal access to basic services; Safely managed services; Safely managed drinking water services - recommendations of the Water Quality Task Force

Safely managed sanitation services - data gaps to be addressedExpanding the WASH monitoring framework; Data evolution and revolution; New priorities for monitoring; ANNEXES; Annex 1: The JMP method; Annex 2: Millennium Development Goals: regional groupings; Annex 3: Country, area or territory estimates on sanitation and drinking water; Annex 4: Trends in urban and rural drinking water coverage, 1990-2012; Annex 5: Trends in urban and rural sanitation coverage, 1990-2012

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version: Progress on drinking water and sanitation. 2014 update

ISBN:

92-4-069281-9

OCLC:

888748926