Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to an improved
standard of living. Globally, 91% of households used improved drinking water sources in …

Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action
for people, planet and prosperity, comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …

The year 2005 marks the beginning of the “International Decade for Action: Water for Life”
and renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce by half …

Safe drinking-water is essential to sustain life–it is the basis for human health, survival,
growth and development. Therefore, access to safe drinking-water is a basic human right …

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to improving
standards of living for people. The improved standards made possible by WASH include …

Background Lack of access to and use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cause 1.6
million deaths every year, of which 1.2 million are due to gastrointestinal illnesses like …

Progress in relation to access to basic sanitation is however insufficient to achieve the
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people …

Children need WASH–water, sanitation and hygiene–to survive and thrive. This is true in
times of stability and crisis, in urban and rural communities, and in every country around the …

The lack of access to water and sanitation services (WSS) of a considerable share of the
world population has been challenging the international community for decades. The …

The sanitation target of the Sustainable Development Goals is that everyone should have a
'safely-managed'sanitation facility by 2030 and that open defecation be eliminated. The …