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.
Safe WASH are crucial to human health and well-being. It contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and help to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.
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.Drinking unsafe water impairs health through illnesses such as diarrhoea, and untreated excreta contaminates groundwaters and ...
Estimating WASH-related burden of disease Unsafe WASH is linked to many diseases and risks including infections, non-communicable diseases from exposures to contaminants in drinking-water and adverse impacts on well-being.
Safely managed water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are an essential part of preventing and protecting human health during infectious disease outbreaks, including the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and adequate hygiene (WASH) services is essential to population health, welfare and development. Preventable water-related diseases claim tens of thousands of lives in the Western Pacific Region.
WHO also supports collaboration between WASH and health programmes where sanitation is critical for disease prevention and risk reduction including neglected tropical diseases, cholera, polio and antimicrobial resistance, and environmental surveillance of pathogens.
Urgent action is needed to strengthen national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems so countries can accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and protect health, especially in the face of growing climate-related risks and recurring disease outbreaks.New findings from State of systems for drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: Global update 2025, the UN-Water ...