A young girl from the remote Turkana tribe in northern Kenya digs a hole in a river bed to retrieve water near Lodwar. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
MDG7: Ensure environmental sustainability
To integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of resources, to reduce biodiversity loss, and to halve by 2015 the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Visit the UN webpage to read more about MDG7 and its progress.
MDG7: reports and data from the web
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• Read the latest Guardian stories related to MDG7 including desertification, drought, flooding, water and sanitation
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Search our global development data store, or take a look at searches related to MDG7: forests, energy use, CO2 emissions, water and sanitation, slums
MDG7 multimedia
Explore our global development videos, galleries, audio and interactives related to MDG7, which include:
• Interactive: Horn of Africa drought
• Podcast: Climate change adaptation
• Audio slideshow: Crossing borders to find water in Burkina Faso
The Guardian: Beating flood damage in Bangladesh. Link to this video
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