On Safe Drinking Water, Skepticism Over UN Claims

Yale Environment 360: It was rare good news. On March 6, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared that the world had halved the proportion of the world's population drinking unsafe water. One of the key Millennium Development Goals set by the UN more than a decade earlier had been reached -- and, moreover, it had been reached five years ahead of schedule. Ban Ki-moon called it "a great achievement for the people of the world." And apparently, the world agreed, as most media reported the claim at face value....

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