Fred Pearce: On Safe Drinking Water, Skepticism Over UN Claims: UN claims ‘world had reduced by half the proportion of people drinking unsafe water’
UN claims success in 'meeting a critical development goal 5 years ahead of schedule. But a closer look reveals that the facts simply do not support this claim...The claim is not true — and the experts know it...water experts...say the claim is an institutional construct that says little about the true state of drinking water around the world'
