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Bookmark or Share- Water and Sanitation | Department of Economic and Social AffairsEVENTS. Water and sanitation are at the core of sustainable development, and the range of services they provide underpin poverty reduction, economic growth and environmental sustainability. However, in recent decades overexploitation, pollution, and climate change have led to severe water stress in locales across the world.
- Sanitation - World Health Organization (WHO)Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost opportunities for education and work. Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections and polio.
- SANITATION AND HYGIENE - World Health Organization (WHO)Sanitation is defined as access to and use of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human excreta. In addition to preventing disease by avoiding contact with pathogens or parasites contained in excreta, sanitation also aims to promote human dignity and well-being. Sanitation services range from the provision and emptying
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO)Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments. Drinking unsafe water impairs health through illnesses such as ...
- Improving sanitation safety - World Health Organization (WHO)Improving sanitation safety. Safe sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO is leading efforts to monitor the global the burden of sanitation-related disease and access to safely managed sanitation and wastewater treatment and factors that enable or hinder progress under the Sustainable Development agenda. WHO supports ...
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