Training for Water Committee users

WATER and SANITATION

Today, more than one billion

people lack access to safe water
and over three billion, half of
humanity, do not have adequate
sanitation facilities.
WATER and SANITATION

The number of people

without adequate water
and sanitation facilities
could reach 5.5 billion in
the next 20 years.
 WATER and SANITATION

30% of common recurrent

diseases are WatSan
related

4 million die annually

(80% < 5yrs)
WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT

“Water is fundamental for life and health. The

human right to water is indispensable for leading
a healthy life in human dignity. It is a pre-
requisite to the realization of all other human
rights.”

UN Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights

26.November 2002
 GENDER
Recognize the issue of gender and the
need for a gender-balanced approach.
 hygiene awareness

Spreading hygiene awareness has become a core

priority in your areas to minimize the risk of sanitation-
related health issues in vulnerable communities. Since
the beginning of the crisis in Somalia , awareness
campaigns highlighting key hygiene issues have been
organized by many organizations like zamzam
foundation teams. This involves interactive activities
such as hand washing through formal education centers
and collective shelters around Mogadishu and other
regions of Somalia.
 APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES

Give due consideration to the use of

appropriate local technologies for
the sustainability of the work.
 Water and Sanitation in Emergencies

‘expanding and improving existing capacities to meet the needs of those affected by disaster’
The needs in emergencies

 In most disaster/emergency scenarios, high level of morbidity and

mortality is related to lack of safe water and poor sanitation
 Combined with other health threats (such as malnutrition, malaria
etc.,) morbidity and mortality related to WatSan often increases
 Rapid action required to avoid epidemic outbreaks (diarrhoeal
diseases, cholera etc.,)
 Disasters often impact upon the most vulnerable, where chronic
lack of safe water and sanitation already exists
 Need for acceptable standard of WatSan coverage to recover
some quality of life for the victims of disasters
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Emergency Response Units (ERU’s)
Developmental Programmes

 Community participation

 National Water and Sanitation strategies

 Integrated approach

 Evolution from relief to development

Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI)

‘Contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by scaling-up established capacities’