Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water Related Diseases 2000-2020
Overview
This report looks at three different scenarios and concludes that even if we achieve the United Nations Millennium Goals, which aim to cut the proportion of people without clean drinking water by half, 34 to 76 million people could perish by 2020 due to water-related diseases.The UN Millennium Goals, while important quantitative targets, are inadequate alone: they must be coupled with specific, aggressive commitments on the part of countries and international organizations.
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