Sustainable Water Supply & Sanitation for All People
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is a global multi-stakeholder partnership organisation that works to improve the lives of poor people. WSSCC enhances collaboration among sector agencies and professionals around sanitation and water supply and contributes to the broader goals of poverty eradication, health and environmental improvement, gender equality and long-term social and economic development. The activities undertaken by WSSCC were recognized in the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/45/181 of 21 December 1990. WSSCC's network of National WASH Coalitions and individual members gives it the legitimacy and flexibility to work effectively at the community level. Through Networking & Knowledge Management, Advocacy & Communications and the Global Sanitation Fund, WSSCC is at the forefront of knowledge, debate and influence on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all.
In focus
- The World's Longest Toilet Queue takes place 22 March, World Water Day 2010. Visit the website to join the online queue or find out what happens in your country. Media advisory available here.
The latest report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation entitled "Progress on sanitation and drinking-water – 2010 Update" was published 15 March and provides the most recent data for drinking-water and sanitation, along with the implications and trends these new data reveal for reaching the basic sanitation and safe drinking-water MDG target.
An international Hygiene Practitioners’ Workshop organised by BRAC, IRC, WaterAid and WSSCC took place 1-4 February in Bangladesh. 50 prominent professionals from South and South East Asia sought to improve understanding of the key success factors to large-scale hygiene behaviour change. Read the presented papers here and a blog here.
- We've been tubed! Watch our short video here.
Make a Difference -- Be a Member!
Networking ... publications ... knowledge on water, sanitation and hygiene -- WSSCC membership has many benefits and, best of all, its free! Join our community here.
Alert
WSSCC has become aware that a group describing itself as the World Water Organization has posted information on its website and distributed correspondence concerning a High Level Conference on Water and Public Health on 8 – 9 April 2010. Jon Lane, Executive Director of WSSCC is incorrectly listed as a speaker. WSSCC has no association with this conference or with the group claiming to organize it.
