The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 22
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Deeply concerned that non-existent or inadequate sanitation facilities and serious deficiencies in water management and wastewater treatme nt can negatively affect water provision and sustainable access to safe drinking water and that, according to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2017, over 80 per cent of the world’s wastewater, and over 95 per cent in some of the least developed countries, is released into the environment without treatment,