water and sanitation

A Palestinian child wearing a blue shirt waits in line for clean water in Rafah, Gaza, on March 16.

What It Would Take to Achieve Water for Peace

Mary Ndira sist outside their house next to a drainage in Kibera slums on March 2, 2022 Photo-Dominic Kiruli

As Population Climbs, Hygiene Suffers in Slums

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

This labor and delivery room has no water. CREDIT: Haik Kocharian

Health Care Facilities Are Everyone’s Frontline

A nurse pours water from a pitcher to help the surgeon scrub for a cesarean section at St. Therese Hospital in Central Plateau, Haiti. © 2014 C. Hanna-Truscott/Midwives for Haiti, Courtesy of Photoshare

Safe Surgery—and UHC—Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

In front of WaterAid's Women Deliver 2019 exhibit booth, WaterAid Malawi Country Director Mercy Masoo holds up a bag with one of their key messages: WASH for everyone.

Mercy Masoo, Leading the Way in WASH and Gender Equality

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’