This blog was first published on www.views-voices.oxfam.org.uk
For World Water Week, Louise Medland reflects on the stark global inequalities in access to water and sanitation and outlines some of the Oxfam programmes which are improving services for the poorest.
‘Equal access to sufficient safe and affordable water, and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene, can mean the difference between prosperity and poverty, well-being and ill-health, and even living and dying.’
United Nations (2018). Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation