Sanitation

Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces. Inadequate sanitation is a major cause of disease world-wide and improving sanitation is known to have a significant beneficial impact on health both in households and across communities. The word 'sanitation' also refers to the maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal.

	New interactive information portal on water, sanitation and hygiene for the Pacific
	Water & sanitation data query tool - Sanitation data by the Joint Monitoring Programe (JMP) for Water Supply & Sanitation. This page enables you to produce customized tables displaying one or several parameters for one or several countries between 1990 and 2004.