Why do millions of people still live without clean water?
The world has made significant progress in increasing people’s access to clean water.
Since 2000, more than 2.3 billion people have gained clean water close to home. Here at WaterAid, we have directly reached 28.5 million people with this essential since we were founded in 1981.
Yet the world continues to battle a water crisis, despite decades of work and global commitments to deliver clean water and sanitation to all by 2030.
Today, 703 million people don’t have clean water close to home. That's almost one in ten of us.
This World Water Day, we explore why more progress hasn't been made and what needs to be done to end the water, sanitation and hygiene crisis for good.
We believe that with a global effort, everyone, everywhere can have access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene within a generation.?
Executive Director, International Programmes
Why doesn't everyone have access to clean water yet?
By Hannah Crichton-Smith , Senior Advisor – System Strengthening
Despite decades of projects, fundraising and technological inventions, millions of people still live without access to clean water. Explore the barriers to achieving universal access, and how a systems strengthening approach can help overcome them in our World Water Day blog.
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Our vision is a world where everyone, everywhere has access to safe and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). But progress is still unacceptably slow. So what needs to be done to help make our vision a reality? Read our policy recommendations in this report.
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The critical role of aid in financing water, sanitation and hygiene
Investing in clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene has powerful impacts. It improves health outcomes, strengthens economic development and builds people's resilience to climate change. Yet funding for WASH aid is declining at an alarming rate. We call on donors to take action in our report.
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