Triple Threat: How Disease, Climate Risks, and Unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Create a Deadly Combination for Children
2023
This report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) examines the water, sanitation, and hygiene-related threats facing children worldwide, highlighting the triple burden caused by the intersection of access to WASH services, the burden of WASH-related diseases, and growing climate risks. The report finds that globally, 600 million children do not have safely managed drinking water, 1.1 billion lack safely managed sanitation, and 689 million lack basic hygiene services. The report details the causes and impact of water insecurity globally―from population growth to conflict and migration―and examines countries with the highest triple burden of WASH-related threats. The report offers solutions to respond to the global water crisis, calling on governments to scale up investment in the WASH sector, strengthen the resilience of WASH services, and increase coordination to provide high-quality water and sanitation services―to protect the right to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene for every child worldwide.
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Triple Threat: How Disease, Climate Risks, and Unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Create a Deadly Combination for Children. United Nations Children's Fund 2023. https://data.unicef.org/resources/triple-threat.