Health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.

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Impacts of Climate-Related Hazardous Events on Drinking Water and Sanitation Coverage: Determining Vulnerability and Preparedness

The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Climate change is projected to alter the global hydrologic cycle, causing increasing intensification and variability in precipitation. These changes will adversely impact water and sanitation coverage. The severity of these climate-related hazardous events on drinking water and sanitation systems...Read more

Water and Sanitation Markets in the Pacific: Understanding Demand and Fostering Sustainable WASH Marketplaces

The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sanitation marketing has been identified as a promising approach for increasing access to adequate sanitation. However, it is unclear if sanitation marketing offers a coherent framework that can transform the WASH sector in the Pacific into a sustainable, demand-driven market. Further, access to...Read more
Regional focus: 
East Asia and Pacific

USAID: Water and Sanitation

U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource is the homepage for the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) work on water and sanitation. From this page, users can navigate through case studies, as well as lessons learned and best practices. Users will also find the Water and Development Strategy available on...Read more

USAID: Global Development Lab

U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource is the homepage for the U.S. Global Development Lab, which is a new entity within USAID that brings together a diverse set of partners to discover, test, and scale breakthrough solutions to achieve what human progress has only now made possible -- the end of extreme poverty by 2030...Read more

Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In

Published: 
January 24, 2015
The LTFHC was glad to serve as a resource to journalist Jeffrey Gettleman in the preparation of this article featured in The New York Times. The article describes the potential environmental problems of treated mosquito nets being used to catch fish. Millions of mosquito nets are handed out to...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan AfricaCongo, Democratic Republic of theTanzania

From Curse to Cure: The Impact of Energy Exploration & Production in the Lake Tanganyika Basin

Published: 
September 10, 2014
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
New study charts risks and rewards of the forthcoming oil boom in the African Great Lakes: The LTFHC released a white paper on the burgeoning hydrocarbon sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding African Great Lakes region. The unprecedented study details how the oil and gas...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan AfricaBurundiCongo, Democratic Republic of theTanzania

Water-Based Health Care in the Lake Tanganyika Basin

Published: 
July 1, 2013
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
This video documents the work of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC). The LTFHC/WAVE is an organization that is both dedicated and uniquely positioned to drive positive outcomes for the people and environment in the Lake Tanganyika Basin by delivering health care by boat to the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan AfricaCongo, Democratic Republic of theTanzania

Connection between Under-Five Deaths, Food Security, and WASH in Eastern Congo

Published: 
January 16, 2015
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
LTFHC/WAVE Special Report No. 2 reports on the organization's trip to the southern part of South Kivu (DR Congo) in October 2014, where the team conducted eleven epidemiologic and technical surveys. Data was collected from Uvira and Nundu Health Zones in the Tanganyika District. Analysis of...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan AfricaCongo, Democratic Republic of theTanzania

Recommended Reading: Lake Tanganyika

Published: 
September 1, 2014
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
Despite being so isolated, the future and fate of the Lake Tanganyika Basin could not be more connected to the rest of the world. Rich in natural resources like oil and minerals and a place of enormous environmental importance because it contains one fifth of the world’s fresh water, the lake...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan AfricaCongo, Democratic Republic of theTanzania

Save Lake Tanganyika: Treat it Like an Ocean

Published: 
November 30, 2011
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
A National Geographic News article describing Lake Tanganyika's unique number of fish species found nowhere else in the world and conservation approaches to protect the lake's rich biodiversity. Read more
Regional focus: 
Congo, Dem. Rep.Tanzania

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