£18.5 million in UK funding will help provide safe, reliable, and affordable water supply sanitation and hygiene services that help prevent disease, protect people's health and safeguard the ...

Northumbrian Water has finished a £1.3 million upgrade at its Bishopton sewage treatment works near Darlington.

The total IBRD and IDA financing approved for water supply and sanitation in the past five years (FY2009-13) was over US$16.9 billion. Both water supply and sanitation (including wastewater, sewerage, ...

Britain’s ageing water network would take 700 years to replace if work continues at the rate seen since privatisation, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office ...

UK aid has paid for the installation of clean water points in countries such as Ethiopia A leading charity has criticised the government's plan to reduce funding for overseas water and sanitation ...

Water is a basic human need, required for drinking and to support sanitation and hygiene, sustaining life and health. The access to both water and sanitation are human rights. Valuing water supply, ...

Water and sanitation are among the most basic services people require to remain healthy and safe. Yet worldwide, nearly 2.2 billion do not have access to safely managed water, of whom nearly 600 ...

Water supply and sanitation service provision in human settlements is affected by a plethora of governance and operational challenges. In the last decades, service providers across the globe have been ...

The human right to water and sanitation. On 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and ...