Global WASH Resources
Below is a compiled list of resources related to water, sanitation, and hygiene. Also available is information about related diseases and global water, sanitation and hygiene-related programs at CDC.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
World Health Organization (WHO)
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
- Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Development
- Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target (WHO/UNICEF) (PDF, 1.14 mb, 47 pages)
- Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Water and Sanitation Related Diseases
- Statistics on Water and Sanitation Related Diseases
- Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking Water Quality from Catchment to Consumer (PDF, 1.23 mb, 244 pages)
- Soil-Transmitted Helminths
- Safe Water, Better Health: Costs, Benefits and Sustainability of Interventions to Protect and Promote Health
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Facts and Figures
- Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
- Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hidden Successes, Emerging Opportunities (PDF, 1.39 mb, 52 pages)
United Nations (UN)
- United Nations' Millennium Development Goals Report (PDF, 2.31 mb, 21 pages)
- UN-Water
- International Decade for Action: Water for Life
- UNDP- Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
- World Water Day 2008
- International Year of Sanitation
- UNICEF-Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
- USAID- Environmental Health- Optimal Handwashing
Other Resources
- Safe Drinking Water is Essential (Global Health and Education Foundation)
- Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap
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- Page last reviewed: November 25, 2008
- Page last updated: November 25, 2008
- Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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