Mar 22, 2024 · In 2022, 57% of the global population (4.6 billion people) used a safely managed sanitation service; 33% (2.7 billion people) used private sanitation facilities connected to sewers from which wastewater was treated; 21% (1.7 billion people) used toilets or latrines where excreta were safely disposed of in situ; and 88% of the world’s ...

Mar 6, 2025 · Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.

Nov 10, 2023 · Globally 3.5 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services. The World Bank helps countries address the sanitation challenges: ending open defecation, improving service delivery, and closing the loop from access to sanitation facilities to sustainable management of wastewater and sludge.

Sanitation is defined as access to and use of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human excreta. In addition to preventing disease by avoiding contact with pathogens or parasites contained in excreta, sanitation also aims to promote human dignity and well-being. Sanitation services range from the provision and emptying

Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. Developed in accordance with the processes set out in the WHO Handbook for Guideline Development, these guidelines provide comprehensive advice on maximizing the health impact of sanitation interventions.

In order to coordinate the efforts of UN entities and international organizations working on water and sanitation issues, the Chief Executives Board (CEB) of the United Nations established in 2003 UN-Water — a UN inter-agency coordination mechanism for …

Jun 21, 2021 · Safe sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO is leading efforts to monitor the global the burden of sanitation-related disease and access to safely managed sanitation and wastewater treatment and factors that enable or hinder progress under the Sustainable Development agenda.

Feb 24, 2025 · Diarrhoeal deaths as a result of inadequate WASH were reduced by half during the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) period (1990–2015), with the significant progress on water and sanitation provision playing a key role.Evidence suggests that improving service levels towards safely managed drinking-water or sanitation such as regulated piped ...

Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.

This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2023. It describes how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy.