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 ...

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 ...

Lack of access to drinking water and sanitation is the leading cause of death in the world and presents many challenges. The international community is working hard on this issue to achieve SDG 6 and ...

the whole community, not just for the individual. As well as the health risks, a lack of access to sanitation facilities is a major cause of risk, anxiety, economic and psychosocial stress.

But access to clean water and sanitation is no laughing matter. A few facts: 1000 children died per day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation in 2013. These deaths are preventable.

A veteran sanitation worker died on the job in Queens Saturday after he was crushed by his own garbage truck, according to city officials. The man, identified as 54-year-old Richard Errico ...

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have sounded the alarm on Uganda's persistent struggles with providing clean water and basic sanitation to its citizens. Speaking at the 14th annual CSOs Water ...

With water and basic sanitation being at the core of several other issues and goals related to sustainability and further progress—such as ending hunger and poverty, promoting good health and ...

The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives. sanitation-india-wasteA farmer in Peepli Khera heads into a sugarcane field to defecate, carrying a container of water to rinse with.

Carnival Cruise Line is one of the industry’s behemoths, operating more than two dozen ships that sail across the globe. But it also has a more dubious distinction of late, with three of its ...