This summary presents the key findings from the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2025 report, which features data from 105 countries and 21 development partners. The Key findings include highlights on policy, plans, institutional arrangements and national targets; monitoring, review and use of data for decision-making; regulation and surveillance; human […]
The GLAAS 2025 report, State of systems for drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: global update 2025, and Key findings of the report were launched on 26 January 2026 at the High-Level Preparatory Meeting for the 2026 UN Water Conference in Dakar, Senegal. One hundred and five countries and 21 development partners participated in the GLAAS 2024/2025 […]
Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, while climate shocks, outbreaks, migration and aging infrastructure present additional challenges. Despite gains since 2015, 1 in 4 – or 2.1 billion people globally – still lack access to safely managed drinking water, including 106 million who drink directly […]
This report presents the performance results of 21 household water treatment (HWT) products evaluated in Rounds III and IV of the WHO International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment Technologies (the Scheme). Released alongside a consolidated overview of findings from Rounds I–II, it represents the third and final report in a series of laboratory-based evaluations […]
