Includes drinking-water sources, sanitation systems, toilet facilities and hygiene indicators, with provincial and urban–rural breakdowns.
Addressing climate change: Supplement to the WHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018–2025 accentuates the need for countries to integrate climate resilience into their WASH planning and policies, given the identification of climate change as a significant health threat. It highlights key focus areas including monitoring of climate-resilient WASH, integrating climate resilience into WASH risk […]
This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2022. It describes how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy. This includes publication and dissemination of its work monitoring access to WASH and WASH systems through the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring […]
This guidance supersedes the first April 2022 version. It is targeted at public health officials who want to understand and integrate complementary environmental surveillance (ES) into COVID-19 control strategies. Routine diagnostic surveillance for COVID-19 has been augmented with ES in wastewater in many locations. ES provides additional evidence on virus in circulation at population level […]
