In Plateau State, as is the case across most of the country, access to water supply and sanitation services have been inadequate. About 61% of the state’s household population currently live without clean water, 29% without access to a decent toilet and 54.8% defecate in the open. Without sufficient access to clean water and sanitation, it will be difficult for ...

WaterAid Nigeria has today renewed its call for improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene in schools as well as healthcare facilities in the country. One in three schools around the world do not have regular access to water, basic private toilets, or a way to wash hands with soap and an estimated 443 million school days are lost every year ...

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Every day, some 800 million women around the world are on their periods, yet for most, this time of the month is shrouded in secrecy, shame and stigma – regardless of who they are or where they are in the world.  WaterAid aims to help change this by opening the conversation this Menstrual Hygiene Day. Why does WaterAid want to ...

Across the six states where we currently work – from Jigawa to Benue, Plateau to Ekiti and Bauchi to Enugu – we are making progress ensuring more people with disability are living lives of dignity with inclusive water infrastructure, accessible toilets and improved hygiene services. Today, 3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. One billion people – ...

1 December 2016 – Today is World AIDS Day and at WaterAid, we believe that water, sanitation and hygiene are critical to both disease prevention and care. While our focus as on organisation is on Sustainable Development Goal 6 and on everyone everywhere having access to safe water and sanitation, on World AIDS Day we are also reflecting on Goal ...

Abuja, Nigeria – To mark World Toilet Day on November 19, WaterAid Nigeria is calling on its government to keep its promise to deliver universal access to sanitation, following the release of new analysis showing it ranks third in the world and worst in Sub-Saharan Africa for having the most urban-dwellers living without a safe, private toilet. WaterAid’s Overflowing Cities: ...

Abuja, Nigeria – WaterAid has today launched a new campaign for health professionals, calling on them to take action to call for improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities around the world. Some 38% of hospitals and clinics in low- and middle-income countries around the world do not have regular access to water; even more do not have ...

This week, WaterAid Nigeria launches its 2016 – 2021 country programme strategy – laying the foundation for the fifteen year path to achieving universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone everywhere in Nigeria by 2030. Over the next five years, the organisation will focus on increasing citizens’ access to quality, equitable and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services ...

The race to end malnutrition requires clean water, good sanitation and good hygiene, WaterAid said today, calling for action as world leaders meet in Rio to open the Olympic Games. WaterAid’s new report, ‘Caught Short’, looks at stunting from malnutrition around the world and the links to low rates of access to clean water and good sanitation. Currently 159 million ...