Report on the October 25, 2011 Roundtable Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, Catarina De Albuquerque

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark K. Williams ◽  
Sharmila L. Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Special Rapporteur ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Water And Sanitation

scholarly journals The association between the lack of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities with intestinal Entamoeba spp infection risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0237102
Author(s):  
Hamid Atabati ◽  
Hamid Kassiri ◽  
Ehsan Shamloo ◽  
Mitra Akbari ◽  
Ali Atamaleki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Infection Risk ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Water And Sanitation

scholarly journals An Inconvenient Truth about Access to Safe Drinking Water

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
A. W. Jayawardena
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
World Population ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
An Inconvenient Truth ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal 6 ◽  
The Right

The phrase inconvenient truth associated with global warming and climate change has received a great deal of publicity some years back. The objective of this article is to highlight a different kind of inconvenient truth which affects about 29% of the world population. It is about the lack of access to safe drinking water that results in over 1.2 million preventable deaths annually. The first two targets of UN sustainable development goal 6 (SDG6) aim at providing universal, affordable and sustainable access to “water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)”.  Recognizing the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a basic human right, issues related to this problem as well as possible options to alleviate the problem are discussed.

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