| 1998 (millions)[4] | 2000 (millions)[5] | 2000 (in %)[12] | |
| without access to safe drinking water | 968 | 1100 | 18 % |
| without access to any form of improved sanitation services | 2400 | 2400 | 39 % |
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| the Tigris and Euphrates rivers | Turkey, Syria and Iraq |
| the Jordan River and the aquifers of the Golan Heights | Israel, Jordan, Syria and Palestine |
| the Punjab rivers | India and Pakistan |
| the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers | India and Bangladesh |
| the Mekong River | China, Indochina and Thailand |
| the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers | Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan |
| the Nile River | Ethiopia, Sudan and East African riparian countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Egypt |