Ensure Environmental Sustainability (MDGs’ progress & related research from PIK)

This blog-post shows positive effects and remained concerns of one of the MDG’s eight goals, ‘Ensure Environmental Sustainability’ (1). This also includes research from Pamoja Imani Kenya which relate to the concerns.

MDG #7

Ensure Environmental Sustainability 

Progress

• More than 2.1 billion people and almost 1.9 billon people, respectively, have gained access to improved water sources and sanitation facilities since 1990.

Concerns

• An estimated 863 million people reside in slums in the developing world.

​Related research from PIK

• Some mother members still have no access to clean water, thus get water from the river and/or remain water from rain for bathing, cooking and drinking.

• All mother members live in slums under unsecured conditions.

1  United Nations, Millennium Development Goals website: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/; United Nations Development Programme website:  http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html