11 percent of global population remains without access to safe drinking water

The world’s nations achieved a UN goal of halving the proportion of
people without access to safe drinking water, five years ahead of the 2015
target, the United Nations announced on Tuesday, The Washington Post reports.
A report issued by the UN children’s agency and the World Health
Organization said over 2 billion people gained access to safe drinking
water between 1990 and 2010.
That means 89 percent of the world’s population, or 6.1 billion people, had
access to safe water sources at the end of 2010 — one percent more than the
goal of 88 percent set by world leaders at the U.N. Millennium Summit in
2000, the report said.
However, UNICEF and WHO said that victory cannot be declared, since
783 million people, or 11 percent of the global population are still left
without access to safe drinking water.
On March 22 the world will celebrate Water Day, initiated by the UN.