Chapter 16. Water, Sanitation, and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Leaving No One Behind
Drinking water infrastructure in a peri-urban slum of Lima, Peru. The tanks are filled periodically by water tankers.
In this chapter, we take a global view of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), with a particular focus on lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that are struggling to achieve WASH access for all their residents. We address questions such as these:
- What are the health and economic impacts of inadequate access to WASH?
- How do we define acceptable levels of WASH access?
- Has WASH access improved over the last several decades, and how far do we still have to go?
- How much funding will it take to solve WASH problems, and where will this funding come from?
A slideshow based on Chapter 16 (including all the figures and tables in the chapter) is available here and below.