Many of the individual assessments of progress towards water-quality targets showed very slow progress.
Alexander Baum, EU ambassador to Malawi, expressed his belief in Malawi achieving the MDG's, "Malawi has made impressive progress since 1990 towards water supply, and further efforts will be made in order to provide safe water for all by 2015.
Going by the 'exclusion criteria' and the 'official indicators', progress towards the water target of the MDGs is achieved as people switch to piped water connections, or to free public stand pipes, boreholes, or rainwater cisterns within a kilometre of their home [ 10, 32, 33].
Indeed, as that UNDP report came out, Namibia and Botswana amicably accepted an international court ruling over an island in the Chobe river, a tributary of the Zambezi.Dripping wetRecently, there has been progress towards durable water treaties for several big African river systems, such as the waters that flow down off the Lesotho highlands.
"In this reporting period, the rate of progress towards our water quality improvement targets has slowed dramatically," he said.
This article provides the first comprehensive assessments of progress towards conjunctive water management on a continental scale across the Australian States and Territories, and suggests an innovative approach towards overcoming barriers to integration.
"However, given the bleaching event, given the failure of the Queensland parliament to pass the land-clearing laws, and also given the continuing slow progress towards the water-quality targets, there's obviously some concerns out there," he said.
Author: Water and Sanitation Monitoring Platform Price: Free No. of pages: Publication date: 2008 Publisher: Water and Sanitation Monitoring Platform Languages: English Information on water and sanitation in Nigeria, including water and sanitation sector coverage, progress towards achieving MDG targets and national disparities in water and sanitation coverage.
It is based on the coverage estimates issued in 2008 by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation (JMP 2, which is the official United Nations mechanism for monitoring progress towards Millennium Development Goal Target 7c on drinking water and sanitation.
There has been progress towards integrated groundwater and surface water accounting and planning, but there is still little systematic attempt to plan and manage surface water and groundwater storage and use at a regional scale over time.
