As a part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the organization commits to achieving basic sanitation for all by 2030. UNICEF works with partners in more than 100 countries to ...

A slum in Delhi, India, with open sewers. More than 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation. Giagnori Eidon/LatinContent/Getty Images. In this series, Bjorn Lomborg explores the smartest ...

The right of every human being to safe drinking water and basic sanitation should be recognized and realized. The United Nations estimates that nearly 900 million people live without clean water ...

UNITED NATIONS — A new report launched Tuesday 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 ...

Two of the Millennium Development Goals, announced at a summit attended by 189 world leaders in May 2000, related to the most basic of human needs: clean water and sanitation. The objective was to ...

Governments can then return their attention to other public health problems, particularly diseases that are also potentially deadly, which can arise simply due to the lack of basic sanitation ...