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Sanitation: slow progress, action crucial, say 2400 experts in StockholmSlow progress on sanitation will cause the world to badly fail the Millennium Development Goals while weak policy, poor management, increasing waste and exploding water demands are pushing the planet towards the tipping point of global water crisis. |
U.N. Highlights Global Sanitation DisasterThe world's sanitation crisis, caused primarily by the lack of toilet facilities for over 2.6 billion people, is "an insult to humanity", says the Geneva-based Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. |
WHO Fact Sheets on Environmental Sanitation in EmergenciesWHO is developing fact sheets to provide guidance to assist rapid response to crisis situations. The first addresses emergency situations specifically. The second covers a wide range of environmental sanitation issues of use beyond the immediate emergency situation. The third provides information on various vector-borne diseases that need to be monitored in an emergency situation. The fourth shows the impact of water and sanitation on a number of specific diseases. |