By Gina Lovasi, PhD, MPH, the Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Professor of Epidemiology at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health . This academic year marks the 10-year anniversary of a ...

TANZANIA – A lack of drinking water and healthy sanitation infrastructure is dire around the world and getting worse, United Nations experts warned in a report issued Thursday. The report finds ...

The report finds that many millions of the world’s 7.78 billion people don’t have enough clean water or sanitation infrastructure that helps keep humans healthy by taking waste away from their ...

Recognizing this, and in line with the Global Compact on Refugees, UNHCR’s WASH programmes focus on including refugee-hosting areas in existing local water and sanitation systems from the outset. We ...

Around 2.2 billion people – or 1 in 4 – still lack safely managed drinking water at home; 3.4 billion people – or 2 in 5 – do not have safely managed sanitation; and roughly 2 billion ...

A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to ...

Large scale WASH strategies, such as improving infrastructure for sanitation and access to clean water, are more expensive and take months to years to implement.

The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 was issued this week. The report estimated 190 million children in 10 African countries are at risk from inadequate access to clean water.

The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023, released Tuesday, painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water ...