The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 13
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The Millennium Development Goals are global targets to be achieved at the global level. The targets should not be applied uniformly at the country level in all cases. It is permissible and even necessary to tailor and contextualize the Goals to diverse national conditions and resource constraints. A 50 per cent reduction in the lack of access to water and sanitation may be ambitious in many countries, but relatively simple in others. Many countries should set targets beyond this benchmark to be achieved by 2015.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation