(i) Support to water supply and sanitation services

Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

Water and sanitation facilities and services for refugees Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 1,642,109 for expenses incurred in expanding and improving water and sanitation facilities and services at existing refugee camps and in constructing water and sanitation facilities and providing related services at new camps.

Figure 12 Percentage of households without adequate water and sanitation services (2002)

Basic services continue to deteriorate, particularly in the health, water and sanitation sectors.

Options are presented on access to basic water services integrated water resources management access to basic sanitation sanitation and hygiene education and wastewater collection, treatment and reuse.

Since 1990, over 1 billion people have gained access to improved drinking water and sanitation services.

Decentralized provision of sanitation services is standard practice in many countries and a goal in others.

Microfinance may also be able to support small entrepreneurs in the business of providing sanitation services.

Where charges for sanitation services are included in water charges, services for poor households, including sewer connections, could be cross subsidized from progressive water charges.

Generally, these countries citizens enjoy services that provide for all water needs, from drinking to irrigation to sanitation.

Target 10 Halve by 2015 the percentage of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation services

Community based organizations and non governmental organizations could act as catalysts for improved hygiene and sanitation in rural communities, and Governments could assist in training local suppliers of sanitation fixtures and services.

While hygiene education and awareness raising are often continuing processes requiring long term donor and government commitment, they can catalyse private demand for sanitation services, thus leveraging household and community sanitation investments.

There are marked shortages of water and sanitation services in rural areas and in some departments in the country.

Sustainable urban development (access to basic services such as water and sanitation, waste management, transport and energy urban planification).

In this case, public health education and hygiene awareness raising, including through mass media, could create demand for sanitation services.

UNICEF interventions focus on expanding programmes that promote improved hygiene and sanitation, while maintaining support for improved water supply services.

The strategic aim is to expand the promotion of improved hygiene and sanitation, while maintaining support for improved water supply services.

The Government's capacity to deliver services to the population, particularly in the areas of education, health and sanitation, needs sustained attention.

The biggest shortages of improved water sources and sanitation services are in the rural areas of Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Petén and Alta Verapaz.

Promoting pro poor policies is important for improving access of the poor to adequate housing and to public services such as water and sanitation services, which require inputs from the public sector.

Sanitation

The Committee notes with appreciation the efforts undertaken by the State party to extend the coverage of the health and basic sanitation services.

National level efforts could be strengthened through capacity building for monitoring and evaluating water and sanitation services, establishing databases and developing monitoring indicators.

Increasing the share of grants in official development assistance could help to ensure that investments in basic water and sanitation services are sustainable.

Those programmes address issues such as urban poverty reduction, crime prevention and access to basic services such as water, sanitation and waste collection.

The international community continues to play a pivotal role in the provision of basic services, such as facilities for education, health, water and sanitation.

C. Sanitation

Deeply concerned by the slow and insufficient progress in providing access to basic sanitation services, and conscious of the impact of the lack of sanitation on people's health, poverty reduction and economic and social development, and on the environment, in particular water resources,

CHAPEL HILL, NC Despite recent progress, more than one billion people still lack decent water supplies, and more than two billion go without sanitation services.

These local epidemics occur due to loss of infrastructure, such as hospitals and sanitation services, but also because of changes in local ecology and environment.

UNICEF continued to provide emergency water and sanitation services and played a leading coordination role in major interventions in Bangladesh, Iraq and the Darfur emergency.

Towards the end of the year, we were close to meeting them for food, nutrition and health services, though not for water, sanitation or shelter.

The expenses were for providing (a) medical treatment of disease and illness (b) vaccinations (c) family planning services (d) water and sanitation facilities and services and (e) overtime and other payments to medical and support personnel.

The urban poor usually have very low access to water and sanitation services, and pockets of people such as indigenous groups often have even lower access.

Emergency infrastructure programmes implemented by UNDP covered a wide range of public services and municipal utilities, schools, hospitals, clinics, roads, sanitation systems and water treatment facilities.

Monitoring of sanitation services could be made more effective through support for community based and participatory monitoring and assessment schemes to complement national and international monitoring programmes.

9.1 Water and sanitation

Liveable housing and sanitation.

The scope of work of UN Water also includes sanitation, encompassing both access to and use of sanitation by populations and the interactions between sanitation and freshwater.

The fight against the causes of child mortality goes through a series of intersectoral actions in the areas of nutrition, education, sanitation, habitation and access to health services.

Sanitation services could be improved by directing domestic resources and donor support, including support by multilateral and regional development banks, to areas of greatest need and greatest impact.