And 840,000 succumbed to poor sanitation.

Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)

Improving public health, sanitation and shelter for the urban poor

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

Occupational safety and sanitation well as production tools are in poor conditions.

Detainees live in extremely poor conditions and a deplorable state of sanitation.

260 billion dollars lost every year on the losses to poor sanitation.

More than 3 million deaths per year are attributed to water pollution and poor sanitation, mainly in poor rural areas.

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

Urban services water and sanitation getting the private sector to work for the urban poor

(a) Urban water and sanitation governance that is geared to the needs of the poor

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

It is more common in regions of the world with poor sanitation and not enough safe water.

Other causes included poor sanitation, lack of proper health education, non availability of safe drinking water, poor cooking practices, general misconceptions about food and bad eating habits.

The poor are disproportionately threatened by the environmental hazards and health risks posed by pollution, inadequate housing, poor sanitation, lack of water and shortage of other basic services.

Brazil had adopted in the 1980s a policy of condominium development of water and sanitation services in poor neighbourhoods.

There are several factors that affect health, such as environmental quality, malnutrition, poverty, poor human settlements and inadequate sanitation facilities.

Increased investment in environmentally sustainable water, sanitation and human settlements programmes has multiple dividends benefiting women, the poor and the environment.

Where sanitation fees are separate from water tariffs, progressive fee structures could support cross subsidization of sewer connections for the poor.

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

Sanitation

Poor and inadequate housing conditions, characterized by overcrowding and lack of privacy, sanitation and basic services exacerbate women's vulnerability to domestic violence.

C. Sanitation

(b) Sanitation

Environmental sanitation

The Radical movement campaigned for electoral reform, a reform of the Poor Laws, free trade, educational reform, postal reform, prison reform, and public sanitation.

An orientation in favour of the poor is also implicit in other programme areas dealing with health, education, human settlement, drinking water, sanitation etc.

Welcoming the establishment by the Executive Director of UN Habitat of a Water and Sanitation Trust Fund as a financing mechanism to support the creation of enabling environments for pro poor investment in water and sanitation in developing country cities,

Estimates of what people in poor nations are willing to pay for piped water do not exceed the costs for many water and sanitation projects.

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.

6.2 States should subsidize water and sanitation services for low income households and poor areas that lack the means to secure access to such services.

12.4 Sanitation facilities

(g) Sanitation materials

Sanitation and cleaning

Sanitation and cleaning

Sanitation and cleaning

Sanitation and cleaning

Sanitation and cleaning

Sanitation project (Switzerland)

Environmental sanitation, Gaza

Sanitation and cleaning

See Environmental Sanitation.

Water and sanitation partnerships raising awareness and delivering water and sanitation services

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.