Middle East / North Africa and the Millennium Development Goals ...

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Markus Loewe
Figure 17: Trends in the implementation of MDG7 / Target 10
(Access to sanitation)
Source: Designed by the author, based on data in Table A10, Annex
Note: Countries for which the available data are either markedly contradictory
or unreliable are omitted.
Mauritania, Libya, Oman, and Yemen are also unlikely to reach Target 10.
Thus far they have not succeeded in significantly improving the access of
their population to safe drinking water (see Figure 16). Mauritania, Libya,
and Oman have therefore been classified “top-priority countries” by
UNDP (2003a). The situation in Iraq is probably very similar.
The data available on Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are too
sparse to permit any assessment of trends in the improvements of access to
water since 1990.The second indicator for Target 10 is the share of households
with sustainable access to sanitation. The goal is to halve the proportion
of people who do not have improved sanitation in their houses.
Saudi-Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan have already reached this goal.
In Saudi-Arabia and Lebanon, according to international statistics, all inhabitants
have access to sanitary facilities, and Egypt and Jordan have
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