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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-water: 2010 Update.</span></font></b><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) <br>
</span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">ISBN 978 92 4 156395 6 (NLM classification: WA 670)</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The report confirms that advances continue to be made towards greater access to safe drinking-water.</span></font></i></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Available online [60p.] at: <a href="http://www.unwater.org/downloads/JMP_report_2010.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.unwater.org/downloads/JMP_report_2010.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“……Progress in relation to access to basic sanitation is however insufficient to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Purpose and scope of this report This report describes the status and trends with respect to the use of safe drinking-water and basic sanitation, and progress made towards the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As the world approaches 2015, it becomes increasingly important to identify who are being left behind and to focus on the challenges of addressing their needs. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This report presents some striking disparities: the gap between progress in providing access to drinking-water versus sanitation; the divide between urban and rural populations in terms of the services provided; differences in the way different regions are performing, bearing in mind that they started from different baselines; and disparities between different socioeconomic strata in society….”</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Content:</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Introduction </span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Status and progress towards the MDG target</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Billions without improved sanitation </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Millions without improved sources of drinking-water </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sanitation: world off track for MDG target </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sanitation ladder: global and regional trends </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Drinking-water ladder: global and regional trends </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Urban-rural disparities</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sanitation: urban-rural disparities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Drinking-water: urban-rural disparities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br>A closer look at the ladders</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Open defecation </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Shared and unimproved sanitation facilities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Piped water on premises and other improved sources of drinking-water </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Additional perspectives</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Time to collect drinking-water </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Collection of drinking-water: gender disparities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Socioeconomic disparities: Sub-Saharan Africa </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">JMP method </span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Joint Monitoring Programme<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Statistical table</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Progress on sanitation and drinking-water: country, regional and global estimates for 1990, 2000 and 2008 </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Annexes</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Annex A Millennium Development Goals: regional groupings</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Annex B Global and regional sanitation ladders: urban and rural </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Annex C Global and regional drinking-water ladders: urban and rural </span></font></p>
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