Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools 2015–2023

by United Nations Children's Fund, World Health Organization

2024 · World Health Organization

The report presents updated national, regional and global estimates for WASH in schools for the period 2015 to 2023 and has a special focus on menstrual health.

Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2024

by World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund

2025 · World Health Organization

This JMP progress report presents global trends in household drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health from 2000 to 2024. It tracks progress toward SDG targets and highlights persistent inequalities across regions, income groups, and demographic characteristics. The report incorporates expanded datasets and new indicators, offering clearer insights into service disparities, fragile contexts, and menstrual health needs. Between 2000 and 2024, the global population rose from 6.2 to 8.2 billion. Over this period, about a quarter of the population (2.2 billion) gained access to safely managed drinking water and a third (2.8 billion) to safely managed sanitation. Yet progress has been uneven and the number of people left behind has fallen more slowly. Since 2015, the distribution of the unserved has shifted: the proportion of the population with sanitation services has risen quickly in rural areas while staying relatively flat in urban areas. However, in terms of raw numbers most of the gains have been realized in urban areas. Basic hygiene access has improved, especially in rural areas; and the share of people unserved has increasingly concentrated in low-income countries.

Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools

by World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund

2022 · World Health Organization

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Water

by Unesco, World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)

2006 · UN-HABITAT

This illustrated report sets out a global review of the state of the world's freshwater resources, based on the collective work of 24 United Nations agencies, following on from the conclusions of the first UN World Water Development Report 'Water for People, Water for Life' published in 2003 (ISBN 9231038818). This second edition discusses progress towards the water-related targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals and examines a range of key issues including population growth and increasing urbanisation, changing ecosystems, food production, health, industry and energy, as well as risk management, valuing and paying for water and increasing knowledge and capacity. It contains 16 case studies which consider key challenges in water resource management and makes a number of recommendations to guide future action and encourage sustainable use, productivity and management of our increasingly scarce freshwater resources.

Water, sanitation, hygiene, environmental cleaning and waste management in health care facilities

by World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund

2025 · World Health Organization

This data update assesses the coverage of WASH services (water, sanitation, hygiene, environmental cleaning and health care waste management) in in health care facilities. There were enough national data to make global estimates for basic water and hygiene services in 2022, with 78% and 57% of health care facilities meeting basic service levels. Due to ageing data, such estimates could not be produced for 2023, the main reference year of the report. Instead, the report focuses on the situation in the 60 countries, areas and territories categorized by OECD as ‘fragile contexts’, where populations are particularly vulnerable and WASH service coverage is relatively poor. The report has a special focus on primary health care (PHC), and explores how adopting the PHC approach is critical to improving WASH services, and how WASH is essential to advancing PHC.

Turn Down the Heat

by World Bank Publications

2014 · World Bank Publications

A Report for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Analytics.