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Between 2005 and 2010, most international aid for water and sanitation projects went to middle-income countries, with only seven of the world’s poorest countries making international NGO WaterAid’s list of top aid recipients for each of those years.
A new WaterAid report, “Addressing the Shortfall: The urgent need for increased and better targeted aid to the water and sanitation sector,” released this week at World Water Week in Stockholm, found that less than half of all water and sanitation aid went to the 28 countries where 90 percent of the people who lack basic sanitation live.