Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the millennium development goals: lessons from five countries

• Main Authors: Rob ES Bain (Author), Stephen W Gundry (Author), Jim A Wright (Author), Hong Yang (Author), Steve Pedley (Author), Jamie K Bartram (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water. METHODS: Data from five countries on whether drinking-water sources complied with World Health Organization water qualit...