Water Quality and Health Irrespective of the claims of the various United Nations agencies and international organisations, the fact still remains that the clean water and the sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals in the areas of water supply and sanitation were not met by 2015. [...] This tragedy occurred due to improper operation and maintenance of the municipal water supply system and the decisions of the Ontario Government to cut staff and budgets in order to transfer the infrastructure responsibilities from the province to the municipality (Hipel, Zhao and Kilgour, 2003). [...] In some parts of the US, some pipelines even date back to the time of the Civil War of the 1860s. [...] In contrast to the US, the countries of the European Union, Singapore and China have been progressively tightening water quality rules and regulations to ensure the quality of water that their population receives continues to remain safe. [...] After the unexpected massive expenditures in both devel- oped and developing countries to combat the adverse impacts of the pandemic due to both health and financial crises, the funding gaps for meeting the SDGs in both water and sanitation sectors will increase very significantly in all counties of the world.
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