Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Overview
The links between water sanitation, hygiene and health
primary prevention?
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Environmental fraction
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1%
2%
3%
Non-environmental
4%
5%
6%
% of global disease burden in DALYs
Environmental fraction
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1%
2%
3%
Non-environmental
4%
5%
6%
% of global disease burden in DALYs
Promoting hygiene
Providing access to sufficient quantities of water, handwashing campaigns,
sanitation in schools, sanitation in health care settings, safe storage of water
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Mainstream issues:
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Global Monitoring:
Headlines from latest Report
The world is likely to meet the MDG drinking-water target
by 2015
the number of people using unimproved sources of drinking
water has fallen below 1 billion
More than half of the worlds households now have piped water
connections in or near their homes
Progress is slowest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to a third of the
global population using unimproved drinking water sources
Trends
Drinking water quality issues not captured
Disagregation: how far, at what expense?
Devolving responsibilities
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Rolling revisions
4th edition Guidelines
for Drinking-water
Quality (GDWQ) - 50+
items on rolling revision
Promoting health-based
water quality regulations
Regulators Network
Training in WSPs
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Rural areas
Small Community Water
Supply Network
Volume 3 of the GDWQ
Water Safety Plans
Urban areas
O&M network
Establishment of regional
networks with IWA
Water Safety Plans
/ Household level
vulnerable groups
Household Water
Treatment and Safe
Storage Network
Priority settings
WASH standards in
hospitals and schools
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New challenges
Water scarcity
Climate change
The green
economy
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Conclusions
Water, sanitation, hygiene and health is a dynamic and
responsive programme that addresses key public health
issues in line with WHOs mandate and relevant to the
Organizations goals.
Global trends towards a green economy and concerns
over poverty levels that remain too high (especially in
Africa) and over the impact on health of climate change
create new challenges and opportunities for WSH in the
context of WHOs priorities for the 21st century
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www.who.int/water_sanitation_health
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