This report published for World Water Day, 22 March 2005, explores how the UK and other governments will fail to meet their water and sanitation promises to the world's poor unless they improve their performance.

Getting to boiling point, reports on the financial waste and underinvestment which are currently trapping millions in poverty. But it also gives national governments and the international community the routes forward which, if followed, could enable them to keep their promises to halve the proportion of people without safe water and sanitation by 2015 as set out in their Millennium Development Goals.