01153nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001653001000042653003400052653002700086100001300113245014700126300001200273490000600285520069000291022001400981       2016                            d10awater10aSustainable Development Goals10asanitation and hygiene1 aHutton G00aCan we meet the costs of achieving safely managed drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene services under the new sustainable development goals?  a191-1940 v63 a<p>In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution titled ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, which brings universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) within our sights. Now, there is the opportunity to finish the half completed job from the Millennium Framework that produced the Target 7c on water supply and sanitation. This historical pronouncement should certainly be cause to be positive, considering the billions of dollars of benefit per year that will flow from universal WASH access. However, the WASH targets (SDG #6 Targets 6.1 and 6.2) are, by any standard, extremely ambitious.</p>
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