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Comunicación corta: Mejora si, pero insostenible: Teniendo en cuenta el agua envasada en bolsas dentro de los objetivos posteriors al 2015 de un agua segura a nivel global
Author(s) -
Stoler Justin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03099.x
Subject(s) - millennium development goals , water quality , business , water security , water sector , adaptability , water source , environmental planning , water resource management , water treatment , natural resource economics , developing country , environmental protection , environmental science , water supply , water resources , environmental engineering , economic growth , ecology , economics , biology
The advent and rapid spread of sachet drinking water in West Africa presents a new challenge for providing sustainable access to global safe water. Sachet water has expanded drinking water access and is often of sufficient quality to serve as an improved water source for Millennium Development Goals (MDG) monitoring purposes, yet sachets are an unsustainable water delivery vehicle due to their overwhelming plastic waste burden. Monitoring of primary drinking water sources in West Africa generally ignores sachet water, despite its growing ubiquity. Sub‐Saharan Africa as a region is unlikely to meet the MDG Target for drinking water provision, and post‐2015 monitoring activities may depend upon rapid adaptability to local drinking water trends.