Effective leadership can also attract the investment needed to provide sustainable access.
The panel agreed that strong governance is critical for countries to ensure sustainable access to water and sanitation for all.
Another target under MDG7 was to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, by 2015.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese have no sustainable access to safe drinking water, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.
"This would leave the main sustainable access link to the Borders Railway fragmented and cause negative public relations," they said.
Sustainable access to potable water have been achieved in different developed countries of the world, but this is not true for many developing countries.
This implies that it is impossible to achieve millennium development goals, target7C: sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation within study area.
Kaitiakitanga refers to the sustainable access, use, and conservation of natural resources, developed by a specific community occupying a particular geographical area (cf., Marsden 1992).
Doing so will ensure that sustainable access to adequate quantities of safe and useable water will serve as a foundation for water security.
In a world struggling for sustainable access to energy for all, renewable energy systems can be a solution to implement on isolated micro-communities.
That would have gone a long way towards helping more people get sustainable access to clean water and sanitation.
