28/10/2022
Safe water is not enough...
The UN targets aim for universal access to drinking water and the specifically aims to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’ and includes targets for universal access to safe drinking water. But how is progress monitored?
The World Health Organization Joint Monitoring Program created the Safely managed drinking water services (SMDWS), a service ladder used to monitor drinking water for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), expanding on the Millennium Development Goal metric (“improved water source”) with three additional criteria, namely: availability when needed, accessibility on premises, and safety (free from faecal and priority chemical contamination).
This ladder classifies drinking water services into 5 categories: safely managed, basic, limited, unimproved and surface water.
Here at CityTaps, we work closely with water providers and municipalities to supply safely managed water in every home.