Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

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

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

Barely one third of the population of South Asia uses improved sanitation facilities.

Improved and sustained hygiene (particularly hand washing), water safety and environmental sanitation practices.

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

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

Service delivery in basic health and water and sanitation has improved, along with efforts to strengthen breastfeeding practices.

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.

Increased use of safe water and sanitation facilities and improved hygiene practices contribute significantly to public health programmes in general.

Improved sanitation should be of high priority, employing small scale solutions in urban areas and the exchange of best practices.

Programmes that combine improved sanitation and hand washing facilities in schools with hygiene education can improve the health of children for life.

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

Despite sanitation being a problem, use of improved water sources is also on the rise 81 in cities compared to 11 in rural areas.

14.3 Over the past decade water and sanitation, two crucial development issues that have direct implications for community and child health have been improved.

Nonetheless, 2.6 billion people over half of the developing world's population do not have improved sanitation facilities, and 1.1 billion are still using water from unimproved sources.

Improved sanitation and hygiene practices could be encouraged by setting targets and providing incentives to communities to meet them (as with the zero open defecation initiative in India).

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.

Part of Bhutan s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation.

The only way to sustainably reduce this massive burden of disease is through the use of safe drinking water, sanitation and improved hygiene practices, in particular hand washing with soap.

Sanitation

C. Sanitation

Similarly, basic sanitation, such as improved hand washing and access to clean water, and better nutrition can also produce significant risk reduction, much of which can be achieved through simple education programs.

UNICEF continues to expand its water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, supporting activities in 93 countries in 2004, ranging from national policy development to direct support for improved service delivery in focus areas.

Between 1994 and 2002, the proportion of homes with improved sanitation services, defined as a lavatory bowl connected to a drainage system, a lavatory connected to a septic tank, or a flush toilet.

Sanitation projects could benefit from arrangements under various multilateral environmental agreements, such as the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, which provides carbon credits for improved sewage treatment systems with methane capture.

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.

At the same time, impoverished countries have huge needs for infrastructure, especially roads, rail, renewable energy, water and sanitation, and for improved current delivery of vital life saving services, including health care and support for food production.

Water system, sanitation and utilities

E. Utilities, water and sanitation

12.8.2 Sanitation and drinking water

Increasing the equitable access to and use of safe water and basic sanitation services and improved hygiene practices will reduce child mortality, improve health and education outcomes, and contribute to reduced poverty and sustainable development as a whole.

It is called sanitation against disease.

And 840,000 succumbed to poor sanitation.

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

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

Thanks to new programs of oral rehydration and improved water and sanitation, we have seen marked gains in treating dysentery and other parasitic diseases, contributing to a 27 decline between 1990 and 2007 in mortality rates for children under five.

It's improved.

Improved access

61 192. International Year of Sanitation, 2008

(c) Sanitation and cleaning materials 51 000

The importance of water, sanitation and hygiene

Infrastructure, sanitation and environment in rural areas