For the next decade, the global water crisis remains the risk of highest concern, and ranks
ahead of climate change, extreme weather events, food crises and social instability. Across …

Objectives Over half of the world's population (4 billion people) experience severe water
scarcity at least one month per year, while half a billion people experience severe water …

Lack of access to potable water and good sanitation is still one of the most challenging
public health concerns of the twenty-first century despite steady progress over recent …

Water insecurity is a critical public-health challenge in Africa's urban informal settlements,
where most of the population often lacks access to household taps. In these settings, water …

Over 70% of Malawi's urban population lives in informal settlements, where households
regularly face chronic water insecurity. This article utilizes mixed methods–household …

This article synthesizes the literature on historical and emerging institutional arrangements
for urban water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight successes, drawbacks, and …

Background information: The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals for sanitation call
for universal access to adequate and equitable sanitation and an end to open defaecation …

The quality of drinking water is a powerful environmental determinant of health. Water
becomes contaminated with faecal material due to inadequate protection of the source …

Poor access to potable water remains one of the most troubling challenges in Sub-Saharan
Africa's informal settlements (or slums) where majority of the poor and vulnerable urban …

Urban‐rural inequalities in water access constitute one of the major obstacles to achieving
universal water coverage. In Sub‐Saharan Africa, these inequalities have persisted for …