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22 March 2023

Water: essential for all, available to a few

Rajanpur district, Pakistan – “There was water as far as my eyes could see. But we did not have any to drink,” says Mehreen. The 12-years-old is the youngest in her family. Six months ago, the raging floods swallowed her entire village, leaving her family and nearly 450 other families homeless, hungry and grapplin...
Press release
21 March 2023

More than 10 million people, including children, living in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas still lack access to safe drinking water - UNICEF

ISLAMABAD, 21 March 2023 - Six months after catastrophic floods struck Pakistan, more than 10 million people, including children, living in flood-affected areas remain deprived of safe drinking water, leaving families with no alternative but to drink and use potentially disease-ridden water. Even before the floods...
Report
22 March 2019

Water under Fire

Around the world, water and sanitation is recognized as a right and acknowledged as an essential part of life-saving humanitarian responses.2 When that right is denied, the consequences can be tragic. Without safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), children’s health, nutrition, safety and education are at risk:...
Press release
22 March 2019

Children living in protracted conflicts are three times more likely to die from water-related diseases than from violence – UNICEF

NEW YORK, 22 March 2019 – Children under the age of 15 living in countries affected by protracted conflict are, on average, almost three times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene than by direct violence, UNICEF said in a new report today. Water Under F...
Press release
23 October 2018

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar awards prizes for the best South Asian ideas on handwashing

Bhutan, 23 October 2018 – New innovative ideas on how to save lives in South Asia by encouraging hand washing with soap were celebrated on Monday. The cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) awarded prizes for the best ideas submitted to the regional WASH ...
Programme
21 November 2017

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Challenge, Globally, we have seen remarkable improvements in billions of people gaining access to water and sanitation services and improving hygiene practices. The past decade alone saw greater government commitments and increased investment for improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Despite this substant...