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 ...

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 ...

About one-third of the global population doesn't have access to basic, clean sanitation, according to the United Nations and other organizations. The U.N., Unilever and the charity WaterAid issued ...

You have to credit SciDev.Net — where possible include our logo with a link back to the original article ... in the Philippines face the most barriers to gaining access to basic sanitation services, ...

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 ...

Basic sanitation services are severely lacking in India, where 40 percent of the country's more than 1 billion people practice open defecation, according to 2015 World Bank figures. This can ...

Instead, it gets dumped, untreated, into the nearest waterway, leaving the estimated 2.6 billion people in the world who lack access to basic sanitation susceptible to all manner of bacteria ...

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 ...