World Vision promotes and provides adapted water and sanitation facilities for the disabled. Read more...
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,... Read more...
The biggest health gains will be realised when entire communities use improved sanitation services. Read more...
Focused efforts on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are urgently needed if the global Neglected Tropical Diseases roadmap targets are to be met... Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
An information guide to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in schools, health care facilities, the workplace, orphanages, prisons, refugee... Read more...
Several inspiring IRC sessions and side events. Read more...
Lack of access to sanitation cost the global economy US$222.9 billion in 2015, up from US$182.5 billion in 2010, a rise of 22%. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
Data was collected on household income, diarrhoeal disease occurrence, water service provision, and sanitation and hygiene services and practices at... Read more...
While global overviews of evidence are useful as a first step, there is a need for evidence related to specific contexts, such as rural or urban... Read more...
Sharing a sanitation facility with just one to two other households can increase the risk of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in young children,... Read more...
A study on sanitation-related psychosocial stress among Indian women in Odisha finds that: Sanitation-behaviors are more expansive than urination and... Read more...
A successful pilot in Ethiopia deserves to be scaled up for health care centres in other parts of the country. Read more...
This fact sheet explains why institutional water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) should be part of the post-2015 development agenda. It includes... Read more...
Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs... Read more...
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons. Read more...
International consultations on targets and indicators for post-2015 WaSH identified non-household settings as a priority, but not all countries are... Read more...
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region. Read more...
This evidence gap map (EGM) provides access to the best available evidence on the outcomes of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions and... Read more...