Clean water and sanitation

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 calls on governments and all stakeholders to: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This goal goes beyond drinking water, sanitation and hygiene and also addresses the quality and sustainability of water resources. The target for the first Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063 is to reduce the 2013 levels of the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and poor sanitation by 95 per cent. Access to water and sanitation are considered core socio-economic and health indicators, as well as key determinants of child survival, maternal and children’s health, family wellbeing and economic productivity. Improved drinking water, sanitation and hygiene play a major role in the progress in health, education and poverty reduction, and are thus used in constructing wealth indexes in household survey analyses of inequalities between rich and poor.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Clean Water and Sanitation

Affordable and Clean Energy

Sustainable Cities and Communities