Target 9: Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
Prospects and Progress
Despite the critical importance of water and sanitation, for improving public health, productivity, and even education, official development assistance (ODA) directed to water and sanitation dropped substantially between the mid-1990s and 2002, and funding in these critical areas has still not returned to 2000 levels. Total donor commitment to water and sanitation in 2005 was around $7 billion, less than 1/3 of the estimated $23 billion required in order to achieve the water and sanitation target. And the UN estimates that without new action, the number of slum dwellers will double, from 1 billion to 2 billion people, by 2030.
Environmental sustainability, and indeed all of the goals, is also threatened by the continuing rise of greenhouse gas emissions, and the current and projected impact of global warming.
