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Counting the Costs and Benefits of Equitable Wash Service Provision
Published in Oliver Cumming, Tom Slaymaker, Equality in Water and Sanitation Services, 2018
According to the WHO/UNICEF JMP, affordability of water and sanitation services is an important cross-cutting concern, which affects the ability to deliver on the human rights to water and sanitation.2 The Human Right to Water and Sanitation places obligations on states and utilities to regulate payments for services and make provision to ensure that all members of the population can afford to access basic services. Expenditure on drinking water and sanitation typically includes infrequent large capital investments as well as more regular recurrent costs, both of which need to be taken into account in any affordability threshold set. Rigorous assessments of affordability would also need to take account of wealth or income, including WASH sector subsidies or other social transfers provided by the state.
Community Organizing and the Detroit Water Struggle: Report from the Front Lines
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2018
A major success of the water struggle named by many activists was involving the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation in the fight. This came about with help from the Canadian environmental activist Maude Barlow, who happened to visit Detroit in May, 2014. Barlow’s organization, the Blue Planet Project, worked with activists from the PWB Coalition to compose a report to the office of the Special Rapporteur asking for their support in calling for the State of Michigan and the U.S. government “to respect the human right to water and sanitation,” calling on the city “to restore services to households that have been cut off” and to “abandon its plan for further cut-offs” and demanding federal, state and local policies to ensure sustainable public financing for water services and access to affordable water for all (Blue Planet Project, 2014, p. 7).
Prevalence of Trachoma in Kogi State, Nigeria: Results of four Local Government Area-Level Surveys from the Global Trachoma Mapping Project
Published in Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2018
Joel J. Alada, Caleb Mpyet, Victor V. Florea, Sophie Boisson, Rebecca Willis, Ana Bakhtiari, Nasiru Muhammad, Mohammed D. Adamu, Murtala M. Umar, Nicholas Olobio, Sunday Isiyaku, William Adamani, Dorothy Amdife, Anthony W. Solomon
All four LGAs meet the elimination target for TF (prevalence <5% in 1–9-year-olds) and trichiasis (prevalence <0.2% in ≥15-year-olds). However, in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation, safeguard health, improve quality of life, and fulfil the human right to water and sanitation, there is a need to improve access to adequate water and sanitation services in these LGAs.