Chances are – if you are reading this brief post – that you have never really had to worry about a full bladder (or worse). Of course, you would have needed to find a toilet at some point, possibly urgently, but there would have been at least one or two options. About 900 million people worldwide have no such choice; either at home or in their local environment. Another 1.4 billion people use toilets that do not meet basic standards. In short, we are facing a global sanitation crisis. UNICEF est...
When it comes to water and sanitation, does self-supply let governments off the hook? Or do people simply need access, regardless of who supplies the service? A new, joint report by UNU-INWEH and UNU-MERIT explores a hybrid mechanism of microfinance for small community water and sanitation supplies. While access to drinking water and sanitation have been established as human rights since 2010, progress towards and beyond related national Millennium Development Goal targets has been slow, particu...