The JMP reports flat urban water coverage
WHO and UNICEF published the Joint Monitoring Programme update for 2000–2024. Global safely managed drinking water rose from 68 to 74 per cent between 2015 and 2024 while the urban share stayed at about 83 per cent — cities connected enormous numbers of people and stood still in percentage terms, because the denominator grew as fast as the service.
Observed — measured or witnessed, with the observation cited.
Subjects
- Urban water supply and sanitation · infrastructure · Global · not located
- Twenty-first-century urbanisation · phenomenon · Global · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000–2024: special focus on inequalities
Supports the global and urban coverage figures for safely managed drinking water and sanitation between 2015 and 2024, including the flat urban drinking-water share of about 83 per cent. V55 verification basis: the figures were retrieved from the WHO news release and JMP report summaries; the report and its data tables were not opened, so this record is partially verified.
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme · 2025-08-26 · Partly verified
WHO/UNICEF JMP, washdata.org/reports/jmp-2025-wash-households; WHO news release 26 August 2025
Recorded on Urban water supply and sanitation
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