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Meeting global drinking water needs

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The Millennium Development Goal target 7c, to halve the proportion of the global population without access to safe drinking water by 2015, is the first international drinking water target ever met. Understanding how this was achieved is critical to replicating success.

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Everard, M. Meeting global drinking water needs. Nat Sustain 2, 360–361 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0292-4

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