Quality

Water security for health and development: What Insights for water quality from MDGs to the SDGs?

The African continent continues to be faced to major challenges in the water sector, particularly in terms of access to safe drinking water and water quality monitoring. Despite progress in recent years, 40% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa does not have access to safe drinking water. The challenge of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 6.1 and 6.3, includes water quality.