TY - JOUR
AU - Cairncross, Sandy
AB -  The Third World Water Forum takes place in Kyoto, Japan, this month. It will be the first major meeting of the sector since the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development, which endorsed the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without access to improved water supply (estimated at 1.1 billion in 2000) and adopted the further goal of halving the 2.4 billion without sanitation. It is to be hoped that the Kyoto meeting will lay to rest three important and harmful misconceptions which have beset the water supply and sanitation sector in recent years. The first two of these are helpfully debunked in a book prepared for the Kyoto meeting ( Satterthwaite & McGranahan 2003). Misconception number one is the perception that water supply is largely constrained by water resource limitations. A number of authors have dwelt on the imbalance between available supplies of fresh water and the population's growing requirements. It has been estimated that by 2025 the share of the world's population living in regions subject to water stress will reach 35% ( Hinrichsen . 1998 ). Some have described the issue in more dramatic terms: ‘Water‐related problems in [the] cities are already enormous, and 
TI - Editorial: Water supply and sanitation: some misconceptions
JF - Tropical Medicine & International Health
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01027.x
DA - 2003-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/editorial-water-supply-and-sanitation-some-misconceptions-awk3JrvwmV
SP - 193
VL - 8
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -