Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic—persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

World Bank projects in Cambodia, the Lao PDR, and Papua New Guinea are working to improve water and sanitation access. These projects are expected to benefit a total of 185,000 people by 2026, over ...

Globally, over 3.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation and safe water. It's a staggering statistic and the ramifications extend beyond easy access to clean water and toilets. Without ...

Understand the interdependency of the Sustainable Development Goals: Achieving SDG 6 is essential for making progress on all other SDGs and vice versa. Sustainable management of water and sanitation ...

Fowzia Omer at a water access point. She is one of the beneficiaries of the One WaSH project in Melka Kero Kebele. The One WaSH National Program (OWNP) Consolidated WaSH Account (CWA), supported by ...

ONTARIO, CA —The International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation (IWSH) announces its annual IWSH Scholarship Essay Contest, challenging students to examine how government and private sector ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (CBS) - Help save lives more than 7,000 miles away. That was the goal for a small group of Villanova University engineering students during their senior capstone course. The students ...

A few years ago, residents of the suburbs of Bensonville, Montserrado County, frequently suffered from diarrhea, cholera and other water related illnesses, often unclean drinking water from ...

Growing up, Amaka Godfrey remembers how much of her life revolved around water. She'd have to lug a can of water to her primary school in Nigeria each day, which had no water of its own. Later, in ...

WASHINGTON, September 25, 2025 - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved the Sierra Leone Water Security and WASH Access Improvement Project. Supported by a $40 million ...