Climate change risks flushing away global progress on sanitation
Format Researchers call for urgent action to adapt sanitation programmes for climate change
Increasingly frequent, extreme weather events linked to climate change are causing devastation to toilets, water supplies, waste systems and treatment facilities, threatening the health of some of the poorest people in the world. In response to this crisis, researchers from the Sanitation Learning Hub have published a new report providing evidence and practical guidance for adapting projects to make them sustainable for the future.
Over two billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities which can allow disease to thrive and damage the health of those young and old. With the Covid-19 pandemic reminding how essential good hygiene and clean water is, and when COP26 has bought climate to the fore, Rural sanitation and climate change: Putting ideas into practice puts a spotlight on the importance of factorin
Published on 15 April 2021
Increasingly frequent, extreme weather events linked to climate change are causing devastation to toilets, water supplies, waste systems and treatment facilities, threatening the health of some of the poorest people in the world. In response to this crisis, researchers from the Sanitation Learning Hub have published a new report providing evidence and practical guidance for adapting projects to make them sustainable for the future.
Over two billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities which can allow disease to thrive and damage the health of those young and old. With the Covid-19 pandemic reminding how essential good hygiene and clean water is, and when COP26 has bought climate to the fore, ‘Rural sanitation and climate change: Putting ideas into practice’ puts a spotlight on the importance of factoring climate change impacts into sanitation, especially in vulnerable rural areas in countries su
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