Global Challenges: Water
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Global challenges in water, sanitation and health.
The year 2005 marks the beginning of the "International Decade for Action: Water for Life" and renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) to reduce by half the proportion of the world's population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015. Currently, UNICEF and WHO estimate that 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supplies and 2...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Challenges
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2056-6646
DOI: 10.1002/gch2.1002