Global WASH Resources & Publications

Below is a compiled list of resources related to water, sanitation, and hygiene. Also available is information about related diseases and global water, sanitation and hygiene-related programs at CDC.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Safe Water System
• Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
• Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Development
• Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target (WHO/UNICEF)  (PDF, 1.14 mb, 47 pages)
• Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Water and Sanitation Related Diseases
• Statistics on Water and Sanitation Related Diseases
• Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking Water Quality from Catchment to Consumer  (PDF, 1.23 mb, 244 pages)
• Soil-Transmitted Helminths
• Safe Water, Better Health: Costs, Benefits and Sustainability of Interventions to Protect and Promote Health
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Facts and Figures
• Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
• Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hidden Successes, Emerging Opportunities  (PDF, 1.39 mb, 52 pages)

United Nations (UN)

• United Nations' Millennium Development Goals Report  (PDF, 2.31 mb, 21 pages)
• UN-Water
• International Decade for Action: Water for Life
• UNDP- Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
• World Water Day 2008
• International Year of Sanitation
• UNICEF-Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
• USAID- Environmental Health- Optimal Handwashing

Other Resources

• Safe Drinking Water is Essential (Global Health and Education Foundation)
• Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap
• Clear Water Initiative

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