Annex 1: Meeting the Millennium Development Drinking Water and Sanitation Target What Increase

Annex 1: Meeting the Millennium Development Goal Water and Sanitation Target – what increase is needed in developing regions?1

1. Progress towards the drinking water target (shaded regions not on track):

Drinking water coverage Annual increase Annual increase (percentage of population) in people served needed to reach Average number the target of people served verage number aly1990-2002: of people to be 1990 2002 20153 MDG (thousands) served aly2002- (projected) target 2015: (thousands)2 Northern Africa 88 90 92 94 2,383 3,0094 Sub-Saharan Africa 49 58 68 75 12,524 21,485 Latin America & the 83 89 96 92 9,135 7,891 Caribbean Eastern Asia 72 78 85 86 16,086 15,889 South Asia 71 84 98 86 34,350 23,549 South-East Asia 73 79 86 87 8,208 9,6634 Western Asia 83 88 93 92 4,034 4,5764 Oceania 51 52 53 76 93 283 World 77 83 90 89 90,836 96,5684

South Asia has made the most progress towards meeting the drinking water target, having servedreaching an additional average of34 million people per year between 1990 and 2002 and thereby increasinging coverage by 13 percentage points per cent.

2. Progress towards the sanitation target (shaded regions not on track):

Sanitation coverage Annual increase Annual increase (percentage of population) in people needed to reach servedverage the target number of verage number 1990 2002 20153 MDG people served of people to be (projected) target aly 1990-2002: served aly2002- (thousands) 2015: (thousands)2 Northern Africa 65 73 82 83 2,632 3,3414 Sub-Saharan Africa 32 36 40 66 7,011 26,727 Latin America & the 69 75 82 85 8,053 10,4244 Caribbean Eastern Asia 24 45 68 62 27,613 22,700 South Asia 20 37 55 60 25,875 41,645 South-East Asia 48 61 75 74 9,778 10,5114 Western Asia 79 79 79 90 3,151 5,409 Oceania 58 55 52 79 80 289

1 The Millennium Development Goal 7 on Environmental Sustainability is by 2015, to halve the proportion of people living without access to an improved source of drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 and 2015[in 1990 – the baseline year]. 2 The average number of people to be served increase needed to reach the MDG water and sanitation target is based on the MDG target and the the unserved population in 2002, factoring in projected population growth between 2002-2015. Note that the individual regions do not add up to the total due to rounding. 3 Projected coverage in 2015 is extrapolated from rates of progress between 1990 and 2002. 4 Though the average number of people to be served from 2002-2015 is higher than the average number served from 1990-2002, the rate of progress is sufficient to reach the target. World 49 58 68 75 87,164 137,796

The world needs accelerate the provision of basic sanitation services by 58 per cent to meet the MDG target. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are lagging furthest behind, with Sub-Saharan Africa needing to quadruple the additional number of people served with basic sanitation. Of the 1.9 million children under five dying every year of diarrhoeal diseases, some 769,000 are in Sub- Saharan Africa and over 680,000 are in South Asia.