Though the world met the MDG target for drinking-water, 768 million people do not use animproved source of drinking-water.
In developing regions, 87% of the population uses an
improved source of drinking-water while 2.5 billion people, or almost
one third of the population, do not use improved sanitation. Within the
developing world (without counting India and China) in 2011, 870
million people have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990, but
there is a 12% increase of population using unimproved facilities in
this region for the same 21-year period. -more-
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