The Sustainable Development Goals Report (2020) highlights that about 2 billion people still do not have access to a functioning toilet and about 4.2 billion people are using toilets that could contaminate water sources. Thus, not only are we are far from being an open-defecation free world, but the state…
The Sustainable Development Goals Report (2020) notes that we are far from being an open-defecation free world. Since 2015, around 500 million low cost toilets have been diffused, but still about 2 billion people do not have access to a functioning toilet and about 4.2 billion people are using toilets…
On the Role of Technology and Innovation and Governance to Eliminate Open Defecation A UNU-MERIT Web-Based Event in collaboration with Friend In Need India Sanitation feeds into nearly all the other Sustainable Development Goals through improving heath, reducing child mortality and school absenteeism and promoting gender empowerment. Ensuring access to…
A Multi-Stakeholder Forum With Entrepreneurs, Policy makers, NGOs, Students and Academics November 19, 2020 Meet the Champions of the Next Generation of Sanitation and Waste Management Technologies With respect to sanitation, while the world as a whole is on track for meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) with respect…