Recalling the commitment made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development to launch programmes of action, with financial and technical assistance, to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on safe drinking water, namely, to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water, as outlined in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,See resolution 55/2, para. 19. and the goal of the Summit to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation,Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex, para. 25.
回顾可持续发展问题首脑会议作出的承诺，启动各项行动纲领，并提供财政和技术援助，以实现关于安全饮用水的千年发展目标，即《联合国千年宣言》提出的在2015年年底前使无法得到或负担不起安全饮用水的人口比例降低一半的目标，见第55/2号决议，第19段。 以及首脑会议制订的使无法获得基本卫生服务的人口比例降低一半的目标，《可持续发展问题世界首脑会议的报告，2002年8月26日至9月4日，南非约翰内斯堡》（联合国出版物，出售品编号：C.03.II.A.1和更正），第一章，决议2，附件，第25段。