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.

Health Resources

Recommended Reading: Lake Tanganyika

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Tanzania

National Geographic Kids - Lake Tanganyika Pg 1

Publication date:
May 1, 2014
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
A colorful fact sheet about the Lake Tanganyika Basin published in the May 2014 edition of National Geographics Kids - PAGE ONERead more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Tanzania

National Geographic Kids - Lake Tanganyika Pg 2

Publication date:
May 1, 2014
Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
A colorful fact sheet about the Lake Tanganyika Basin published in the May 2014 edition of National Geographics Kids - PAGE TWORead more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Tanzania

Save Lake Tanganyika: Treat it Like an Ocean

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Tanzania

A Guide to SolutionMUS Putting Multiple-Use Water Services into Action

Publication date:
January 1, 2011
Winrock International
This guide provides an overview of the SolutionMUS approach with inspirational examples from multiple contexts. The guide includes information on how to put SolutionMUS into practice with information on water services and impact-boosting programs in health, livelihoods and environment.Read more

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Niger Learning Brief

Publication date:
January 1, 1970
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in two departments (districts) in Niger. In this learning brief, we review Plan International Niger's activities. We found that Plan International Niger is gradually building capacity for CLTS at the district and...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

From Haiti to Indonesia: What's Different; What's the Same in CLTS Implementation

Publication date:
January 1, 2016
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
This seven country evaluation of case studies presents common features of CLTS implementation, identifies bottlenecks and enabling conditions, and shares lessons relevant to scaling-up CLTS. The research in question identifies implications for practice and delivers policy recommendations across a...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Indonesia
Haiti

Satellite Ocean Color Products

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This page shows regions of Harmful Algal Blooms. Harmful algal blooms of Karenia brevis, the organism responsible for red tide in the Gulf of Mexico, can impact the health of humans and animal life. When K. brevis cell concentrations are present, the report indicates the general location and...Read more

International Rescue Committee, winner of OPIC's Impact Award for Development Impact

Publication date:
May 16, 2014
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
In Cote d'Ivoire, women draw water from a well built by International Rescure Committee, a nonprofit that works to respond to humanitarian crises around the world with a broad spectrum of services related to healthcare, improved living conditions, and social serices. OPIC provides political...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Disability Inclusive WASH

Publication date:
December 4, 2014
World Vision
WaterAid America
The U.S. Water Partnership with support from World Vision, WaterAid, and Messiah College convened a webinar on disability inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)Read more

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