Lack of access to safe water

Lack of access to safe water (map/graphic/illustration)

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Lack of access to safe water. Ensure environmental sustainability goal (goal 7) among the Millennium Development Goals address sanitation, through the target: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation (target 10). The indicator in this graphic display the current status on one of the indicators for this target, using a cartogram, where the shape of the countries are distorted to the proportions in the map. The need for access to safe water is most urgent in Sub-Saharan Africa, but huge populations in Asia are also without access.
Sources UNICEF 2001
Link to web-site http://www.environmenttimes.net/article.cfm?pageID=196&group ...
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Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Appears in Environment and Poverty Times #4: MDG issue
Published 2005
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