posted on 2024-09-05, 22:35authored byHannah Corbett, Lyla Mehta
Access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a universal right and central
to human wellbeing and development. Yet ensuring this right for all, particularly
women and girls who are often systematically excluded, will require international
efforts to move beyond the current Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target
of halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation. Water and sanitation must be placed at the
heart of a post 2015 development framework, and much greater emphasis placed
on issues of equity, discrimination, sustainability, politics and local knowledge.