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 ...

A viral online debate questioned which invention saved more lives, with sanitation, fertilisers, and antibiotics emerging as ...

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 ...

The 2024 extreme and historical drought that hit the Amazon exposed a chronic problem: access to drinking water and sanitation in Indigenous lands, where only a third of households have proper water ...

WASH is the collective term for water, sanitation and hygiene. While each is a separate field of work, they are interdependent and contribute to the overall protection, health, well-being and ...

Once lovingly called the City of Flowers, Peshawar was famous for its fragrant Gul-e-Dawoodi, Mughal-era gardens, and open green spaces ...