Millennium Development Goals progress reports overestimate access to safe water
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
The researchers show that the current methods oversimplify the measure by not accounting for water quality; the key measure of safety. In four of the five developing countries studied, the reduction in reported progress would be substantial. It is likely that MDG safe-water progress in other developing countries is similarly overstated.