How have countries performed in providing clean and safe water over the last twenty years, given their available resources? To answer this question, the Global Urban Futures Project (GUF) at The New School University in New York has prepared this special report of the Habitat Commitment Index (HCI) with a focus on water. As part of the analysis, the GUF team created a compound Water HCI using the Piped Water on Premises (urban) indicator from UNICEF and the World Health Organization, and the Improved Water Source (urban) indicator from the World Bank. The study was conducted to the sample of 169 countries included in the original HCI study presented at the Habitat III Conference, in Quito, Ecuador.
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