Access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) saves lives and changes futures. It’s an essential building block for safe, healthy, thriving communities. Take Mercy Corps’ pledge and join our ...

WASH is the collective term for water, sanitation and hygiene. While each is a separate field of work, they are interdependent and contribute to the overall protection, health, well-being and ...

Human right to water and sanitation The human right to water and sanitation [- 187 KB] Eight short facts on the human right to water and sanitation [- 388 KB] ...

Access to drinking water and sanitation is a human right and, together with water resources, a key determinant in all aspects of social, economic and environmental development. Besides access to ...

Partnerships and cooperation are essential to accelerating progress towards SDG 6 and realizing the human rights to water and sanitation. Safeguarding water, food and energy security through ...

Our connection to this precious natural resource is clear—the human body is nearly ... are lacking safe drinking water, and 2.7 billion are lacking adequate sanitation. By some accounts, 800 ...

United Nations (UN) member states agreed to a new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) ...

Increasing access to improved and sustainable water supply and sanitation services is critical to developing human capital to unleash the growth potential of rural areas. The World Bank Group builds ...

But for billions of people, sanitation ... untreated human waste spreads in the environment, unleashing deadly diseases such as cholera. Governments must ensure that sanitation and water services ...

Water is at the heart of human civilization. Throughout history, societies have progressed by improving access to clean water for drinking, for sanitation and for agriculture, and by removing ...

At the end of November last year, the United Nations (UN) posted on its X platform highlighting that: “Clean water is not a privilege, but rather a human right.”In the same post, the UN ...

“Safe drinking water and sanitation is a basic human right, whose fulfilment requires that the services be available, physically accessible, equitably affordable, safe and culturally acceptable ...