Section One: Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion – General Principles
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6 At the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg in September 2002 the World Community committed itself to “halve by 2015 the proportion of people without access to safe sanitation”. Since 1990 an estimated 747 million people have gained access to sanitation facilities (equivalent to 205,000 people every day). Despite this huge achievement, a further 1,089 million rural and 1,085 million urban dwellers will need to gain access in the coming 15 years if the 2015 target is to be realized. Today, sixty percent of people living in developing countries, amounting to some 2.4 billion people, have no access to hygienic means of personal sanitation i. SECTION ONE: SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROMOTION – GENERAL PRINCIPLES
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Section One: Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion – General Principles
6 At the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg in September 2002 the World Community committed itself to “halve by 2015 the proportion of people without access to safe sanitation”. Since 1990 an estimated 747 million people have gained access to sanitation facilities (equivalent to 205,000 people every day). Despite this huge achievement, a further 1,089 million rural and 1,08...
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