Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target write by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2004. Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child deaths and gender inequality. In adopting the Millennium Development Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, the world is well on its way to meeting the drinking water target by 2015, but progress in sanitation is stalled in many developing regions . This report provides the latest estimates and trends on where we stand today.--Publisher's description.
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target write by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2006. Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene are fundamental to health, survival, growth and development. However, these basic necessities are still a luxury for many of the world s poor people. Over 1.1 billion of our fellow citizens do not use drinking water from improved sources, while 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. Safe drinking water and basic sanitation are so obviously essential to health that they risk being taken for granted. Efforts to prevent death from diarrhoea or to reduce the burden of such diseases as ascaris, dracunculiasis, hookworm, schistosomiasis and trachoma are doomed to failure unless people have access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Lack of basic sanitation indirectly inhibits the learning abilities of millions of school-aged children who are infested with intestinal worms transmitted through inadequate sanitation facilities and poor hygiene. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set us on a common course to push back poverty, inequality, hunger and illness. The world has pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Entering the International Decade for Action, Water for Life, 2005-2015, this report looks at the challenge of meeting the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation. Achieving the MDG drinking water and sanitation target poses two major challenges: a rapid pace of urbanization, which requires a major effort even to keep up the current coverage levels; a huge backlog of rural people unserved with basic sanitation and safe drinking water, which calls for an intensive mobilization of resources to reduce the vast coverage gap between urban and rural populations.
Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead
Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead write by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report deals primarily with the analysis of the drinking-water and sanitation situation in the member countries of the Thematic Working Group on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (TWG WSH) based on statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) updated in 2015. This document also provides key information on selected health and development issues for TWG WSH member countries. The member countries covered in this report are: Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Indonesia Japan the Lao People s Democratic Republic Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar the Philippines the Republic of Korea Singapore Thailand and Viet Nam. Previous documents prepared by WHO for the TWG WSH include extensive analyses of the drinking-water sanitation and hygiene sector as a whole based on country-level information. A key finding of this report is that the TWG WSH region has succeeded in meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking-water and sanitation which is to halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation (UN 2017). Individually nine TWG WSH countries achieved the MDG sanitation target but four countries (i.e. Cambodia Indonesia Mongolia and the Philippines) did not. All TWG WSH countries met the MDG drinking-water target except Mongolia which fell short of the target by 13 percentage points. Overall 77% of people in the TWG WSH region are using improved sanitation facilities whereas 94% are using improved drinking-water sources (UNICEF and WHO 2015). Despite an impressive effort made to provide drinking-water and sanitation infrastructure to the residents in this region about one quarter of the population still lacks access to improved sanitation and 7% lacks access to improved drinking-water. Water-related diseases including diarrhoeal diseases are significant causes of death among children under 5 years old in the region. Almost 30 000 people in the TWG WSH region especially children under 5 die each year due to water sanitation and hygiene related diseases (WHO 2014).
Water for Life
Water for Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water for Life write by . This book was released on 2005-06-30. Water for Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WHO UNICEF monitoring programme for water supply and sanitation
Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure
Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure write by . This book was released on 2011-01-01. Africa's Water and Sanitation Infrastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa's Water and Sanitation InfrastructureùAccess, Affordability, and Alternatives integrates a wealth of primary and secondary information to present a quantitative snapshot of the state of the WSS sectors in Africa. It explains the sectoral institutional structures and utility performance and articulates the volume and quality of financing available over time. The authors also evaluate the challenges to the WSS sectors and explore the factors that govern the expansion of coverage over time. Finally, the authors estimate spending needs for WSS, arriving at a funding gap for meeting the MDGs. The proposed directions for the future draw on lessons learned from best practices and present the menu of choices available to African countries, bearing in mind that the challenges differ to a significant extent among countries and solutions must be tailored to national or regional conditions. --Book Jacket.
