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China, India Economic Development Key to Achieving MDG for Safe Drinking Water
China, India Economic Development Key to Achieving MDG for Safe Drinking Water

Research led by The University of Tokyo examined why the United Nations Millennium Development Goal for access to safe drinking water was achieved when all previous attempts had failed. They looked at previous targets, definitions of water safety, and relations with population movement and socioeconomic change. They found keys to success were the relatively easier and somewhat ambiguous targets, huge population migration in China and urban and rural development in India, and economic development.