2017年7月12日，世界卫生组织和联合国儿童基金会发布的最新报告，《饮用水、环境卫生和个人卫生进展：2017年最新情况和可持续发展目标基准》。这份联合监测规划报告首次提供了对“安全管理”饮用水和卫生设施服务的全球评估情况。报告指出在世界范围内有五分之三的人口（或45亿人）缺乏得到安全管理的卫生设施，有23亿人仍然缺乏基本的卫生设施服务，其中包括与其它住户共用厕所或茅坑的6亿人，以及在露天排便的8.92亿人（大多数在农村地区）。由于人口增长，露天排便现象在撒哈拉以南非洲和大洋洲呈现上升趋势。为减少全球不平等现象，新的可持续发展目标要求在2030年之前消除露天排便现象，并实现普遍获得基本服务。

Report | 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation

WHO and UNICEF released a new report on July 12, Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and Sustainable Development Goal baselines. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report presents the first global assessment of “safely managed” drinking water and sanitation services. According to the report, some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home. 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, 2.3 billion of whom still do not have basic sanitation services. This includes 600 million people who share a toilet or latrine with other households, and 892 million people – mostly in rural areas – who defecate in the open. Due to population growth, open defecation is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania. In order to decrease global inequalities, the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for ending open defecation and achieving universal access to basic services by 2030.