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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Unsafe water, poor sanitation and lack of hygiene are still killing people, even as most countries now have plans to fix the problem. In 2019, at least 1.4 million people died from ...

A KC-area nonprofit is giving households in Congo access to both clean water and hygienic latrines. Courtesy of Chris Roesel Access to safe, reliable water and basic sanitation isn’t a luxury — it is ...

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 ...

Safe water and sanitation are vital to human life. However, despite global efforts, as of 2022, 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed water services, and 3.5 billion are without ...

To set the stage for the 2024 ACS Clean Water Summit, two of the organizers shared their perspectives on the biggest challenges facing the delivery of clean water and sanitation worldwide. Prof. Bryan ...

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 ...

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 ...