UN Millennium Development Library: Health Dignity and Development

Foreword -- Task force members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1 Water is life -- The historical context -- The institutional context -- The focus of this report -- Part 1 The Millennium Development target for domestic water supply and sanitation -- Chapter 2 Why focus on water supply and sanitation -- Human values and human rights -- Contribution to the Millennium Development Goals -- Chapter 3 Target 10 and the global monitoring system -- Target 10 on water and sanitation -- The current system for monitoring and evaluation -- Chapter 4 Where are the needs greatest? -- Access to domestic water supply and sanitation services -- Current levels of access and the rate of progress toward the goal -- Low access to services and high incidence of water-related disease -- Identifying greatest needs globally -- Pinpointing greatest needs within countries -- Chapter 5 What's holding us back? -- Political constraints -- Institutional constraints -- Financial constraints -- Technical challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The special challenge of meeting the sanitation target -- A collective or an individual service? -- The nature of demand for improved sanitation -- Reorienting public institutions for sanitation service delivery -- Changing roles for government -- New technologies or better use of existing technologies? -- Alternative planning approaches for urban sanitation -- Alternative planning approaches for rural sanitation -- Galvanizing support for sanitation and hygiene -- Chapter 7 Technology and infrastructure -- Available technological options -- Cost-reduction strategies -- The need for innovation -- Chapter 8 What would it cost? -- Global estimates -- National estimates: a method to assess needs -- Chapter 9 Grappling with financing for the poorest -- Principal target group: poor people in the poorest countries -- Financial constraints in low-income countries -- Affordability, sustainability, and water conservation -- What about middle-income countries? -- Part 2 Water resources for all the Millennium Development Goals -- Chapter 10 Why does water resources development and management matter? -- Poverty and hunger -- Environmental sustainability -- Health -- Gender equality -- Exploiting potential synergies through combined approaches -- Chapter 11 What actions are needed? -- Investing in water resources development and management -- Adopting integrated water resources management -- Examples of context-specific actions -- Chapter 12 Monitoring and support systems -- Monitoring water resources -- Global institutional support structures -- Recommendations for the international community -- Part 3 Achieving the Millennium Development Goals -- Chapter 13 How to make the Goals a reality -- A call to action -- Ten critical actions -- Chapter 14 An operational plan -- Appendix 1 Insights from case studies -- Notes -- References.