This progress report, published by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, provides the status of safe drinking-water and sanitation standards and the significant progress made to reaching the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. The report focuses on equity issues and highlights that the vast majority of people without access to water and sanitation live in rural areas.

(WHO and UNICEF, March 2010)