water sanitation Articles

Implementing an evolving human right through water and sanitation policy

With water and sanitation vital to the public's health, there have been growing calls to accept water and sanitation as a human right and establish a rights-based framework for water policy. Through the development of international law, policymakers have increasingly specified water and sanitation as independent human rights. In this political development of human rights for water and ...

Jan. 21, 2013

By IWA Publishing
Urban homelessness and the right to water and sanitation: experiences from India's cities

Improving access to water and sanitation for vulnerable groups has been a significant development priority in recent decades and this has been coupled with calls for water and sanitation to be recognised as fundamental human rights. However, to date there has been very limited attention on the right to water and sanitation for homeless people, despite their high vulnerability to a range of ...

Jul. 30, 2014

By IWA Publishing
Mitigating the global water and sanitation challenges

The provision of Water and Sanitation Services is of paramount importance as it provides the foundation for sustainable development. Global trends show provision of water and sanitation services is still inadequate: 1.1 billion people have no access to safe water services, and 2.6 billion have no access adequate sanitation services the provision of water and sanitation services in the ...

Jun. 24, 2011

By IWA Publishing
Water and sanitation interventions to control diarrheal disease in rural China

To evaluate diarrheal disease control effects of various water and sanitation interventions, a comprehensive search strategy was developed to identify all peer-reviewed papers relating to water and sanitation intervention studies in China. All published studies since 1980 on water and sanitation interventions to reduce diarrheal disease in China were analyzed using meta-analysis. ...

May 31, 2016

By IWA Publishing
Community Ablution Blocks with DEWATS in eThekwini Municipality

eThekwini is a metropolitan area comprising the City of Durban and its surrounding areas. The total population is approximately 0.6 million. Before the inception of community-based water and sanitation programme in 2004, 150,000 families in eThekwini were estimated to be living in basic shacks and suffering from poor water and sanitation conditions. The community ablution blocks (CABs) programme ...

Jan. 30, 2012

By IWA Publishing
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding water, sanitation and hygiene for people living with HIV/AIDS

A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the water, sanitation, and hygiene status and the knowledge, attitude and practice of home-based care clients of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) regarding water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH). Interviews and observation of WSH facilities were carried out on 331 randomly selected PLWHA in Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia. Though the latrine ...

Jan. 23, 2013

By IWA Publishing
A review of decision-making support tools in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector

While more than a billion people lack safe water and 2.6 billion lack access to sanitation worldwide, numerous technologies and approaches already exist to provide access to clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene education. In a report from the Pacific Institute and the Woodrow Wilscon Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), scientists and development experts evaluate ...

May 26, 2008

By Pacific Institute
Disparities in access to clean water and sanitation: institutional causes

This paper uses cross-national data from 2002 and 2004 to assess the effects of key institutional variables on the improvement of access to safe water and sanitation. Two key variables of specific interest are a country's commitment to ‘quality regulation’ and the country's long-term development path. The evidence for the impact of those factors on expanding or contracting access to water and ...

Mar. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing
Technical Support Team Issues Brief: Water and Sanitation

This issues brief summarizes main water and sanitation-related commitments made by Member States at Rio+20, different proposals for integrating water and sanitation issues into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework, and some reflections from the Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Water. Continue reading the full ...

May 31, 2013

By IWA Publishing
Monitoring the human rights to water and sanitation: an analysis of policy in Pacific island countries

Government monitoring of water and sanitation services is a critical step in realising the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS). In this study we investigated the national water and sanitation policies of 13 Pacific island countries (PICs) to understand how they envision monitoring the water and sanitation service delivery dimensions put forth by the HRWS framework. In particular, we ...

May 12, 2016

By IWA Publishing
Ancient water and sanitation systems - applicability for the contemporary urban developing world

The main objective of this paper was to discuss and evaluate the applicability of selected ancient water and sanitation systems for the contemporary developing world. This topic is relevant given information the pressing need for sustainable and cost-effective water and sanitation facilities, particularly in urban areas of the developing world and (ii) the current focus on development of ...

Jul. 24, 2014

By IWA Publishing
Water, sanitation and hygiene for homeless people

This short communication provides insights into water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for homeless people through a scoping study conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It investigates homeless access to WASH through the lens of a rights-based approach. It demonstrates that homeless people's denial of their right to WASH reflects their marginal position in society and an unequal distribution of power ...

Jul. 7, 2015

By IWA Publishing
Convergence in access to safe water and adequate sanitation: an analysis across countries and time

This short note reports that developing countries have tended to converge in terms of percentage of population having access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation between 1980 and 1993-1996. It suggests that this represents a good message, but no reason for complacency. Enormous efforts are still needed until all people on earth can enjoy access to safe drinking water and adequate ...

Aug. 29, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
‘Everyone is exhausted and frustrated’: exploring psychosocial impacts of the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation in Usoma, Kenya

The lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation pose significant health challenges for many individuals and communities in low and middle-income countries. Aside from direct health issues, the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation is increasingly associated with psychosocial concerns that affect the wellbeing of individuals and communities. However, the nature of these ...

May 14, 2016

By IWA Publishing
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water and sanitation in India: lessons from China

Since the 1990s China has emerged as one of the world's most active markets for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water and sanitation, while the private sector has played a rather limited role in the water sector in India. From 2001 to 2012, there were 237 PPP projects in water and sanitation in China, accounting for 40% of the total number of such projects globally, and the Chinese ...

Jan. 1, 2016

By IWA Publishing
A Caribbean evaluation of public versus private drinking water provision: the case of St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

This article assesses how a small island state can choose the best option in the process of private sector involvement. It reviews the decision process to involve or not the private sector in water and sanitation supply and in which way. Nine criteria are used to make the choice. A careful weighing process is necessary, taking the history into account, looking at the special institutional ...

Jul. 15, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers
Constitutional mandate and judicial initiatives influencing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes in India

This paper undertakes a thorough review of the legislative and policy framework of water supply and sanitation in India within the larger backdrop of the universal affirmation of right to water and sanitation under the UN WASH initiatives, first articulated under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Recognizing the proactive role played by the Indian judiciary in this regard, the paper ...

Aug. 19, 2017

By IWA Publishing
Realizing the human rights to water and sanitation: A Handbook

UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. September 2014 Since 2010, when the United Nation General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and the Human Rights Council reaffirmed this recognition, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation has received repeated ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By IWA Publishing
Psychosocial impacts of the lack of access to water and sanitation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

The lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation has implications for the psychosocial well-being of individuals and households. To review the literature on psychosocial impacts, we completed a scoping review of the published literature using Medline, Embase, and Scopus. Fifteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were reviewed in detail. Of the included studies, six were conducted ...

Nov. 10, 2016

By IWA Publishing
Water and sanitation issues for persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review and discussion of implications for global health and international development

The critical importance of unrestricted access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation for all is highlighted in Millennium Development Goal 7, which calls for the reduction by half of the proportion of people without such access by 2015. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to the needs of such access for the one billion people living with a disability worldwide, despite the fact ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

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