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UN HABITAT - Manual on the Right
to Water and Sanitation:
A tool to assist policy makers and practitioners develop strategies
for implementing the human right to water and sanitation
Abstract
Affordable access to a sufficient quantity of safe water is fundamental to the health and dignity of all. The
International Year of Sanitation, which has just begun, calls for all nations to recognise that access to hygienic
sanitation is equally important to ensure health and dignity. That over a billion of the world’s people remains
without access to safe drinking water and over twice that number are denied access to adequate sanitation
continues to shock and appal. Millions of lives are at risk from preventable diseases and the futures of millions
of the world’s children are blighted by the multiple deprivations of poverty, lack of education and ill
health that often accompany poor water and sanitation.
This Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation is a timely contribution to efforts to improve access to
water and sanitation and will assist governments, policy makers and practitioners in implementing the human
right to water and sanitation. National and local governments will find this Manual a useful resource and will
be able to make excellent use of the practical, affordable and sustainable strategies, policies and solutions
contained therein to address the problems they are facing in realising the right to water and sanitation. The
Manual distinguishes between the challenges facing urban and rural areas, and proposes policy approaches
for each that address their different circumstances.
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