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Water and Sanitation

Currently, 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation and 900 million people lack safe water. As a result 2.2 million children aged less than five die from diarrhoeal diseases each year. Women and children in poorer countries spend hours each day collecting and carrying water. The weight of water carried can be more than 25 kilograms. See below for links to our policy and research documents.

For further information about Tearfund’s work on water, sanitation and hygiene see

http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

and also the work related to environmental sustainability

http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Environmental+Sustainability/


Tackling climate change: thinking outside the water box (2009)
In this paper, Tearfund outlines why water should be a priority for climate change adaptation funding, with recommendations for ensuring that adaptation is effective and sustainable.
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Why Advocate for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene? (2009)
It is vital that governments and donors are held to account for the promises they have made. For organisations that are new to advocacy issues, we would recommend reading Tearfund’s guide to advocacy on water and sanitation.
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Keeping communities clean: The church's response to improving sanitation and hygiene (2009)
Follow this link to access the report in English, French and Portuguese.
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Separate streams? Adapting water resources management to climate change (2008)
This report is based on empirical evidence from case studies undertaken in Niger and north-east Brazil, and aims to identify how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the most poor and vulnerable people. Click...
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Sanitation and Water - Why we need a global framework for action (September 2008)
Follow this link to access the report in English and French.
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The Sanitation Scandal (November 2007)
This report draws on case studies from Burkina Faso, DRC and Madagascar. It highlights barriers to delivering improved sanitation and hygiene and suggests how the international community and national governments should respond.
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Sanitation and Hygiene: knocking on new doors (December 2006)
A joint briefing paper produced by Tearfund, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and some Tearfund partners.
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Functional sustainability (August 2006)
A case study from south-west Uganda, by Richard C Carter and Ronnie Rwamwanja, August 2006
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Pipe Dreams (March 2006)
Governments' failure to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis is threatening goals to halve poverty.  This report sets out the scale of the problem, and the actions required.
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An empty glass (December 2005)
A critique of the EU Water Initiative, launched in 2002
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Eau potable, assainissement et hygiene: porquoi plaidoyer? (2005)
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Por que defender questões relativas à água, ao saneamentoe à higiene? (2005)
 
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Por qué hacer defensoría a favor del agua, del saneamiento y de la higiene? (2005)
 
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Making every drop count (2004)
A series of reports looking at more and better financing for the water and sanitation sector.
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