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Institute for Water, Environment and Health
(UNU-INWEH)
175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204, Hamilton Ontario L8P 0A1 CANADA
Phone: 1-905-667-5511
Fax: 1-905-667-5510
Email: contact@inweh.unu.edu
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Water-Health Solutions Spotlight
Case studies on clean water provisioning in remote, rural or otherwise marginalized communities
Water-Health Nexus at a Glance
Over 3 million people, mostly children, die each year from water-related health problems, while billions are made ill. Importantly, it is widely accepted now that no other single intervention is likely to reduce global poverty more than the provision of safe water and sanitation. Safe water provisioning in unserved areas is barely keeping pace with global population growth, so that meeting the MDG targets for water is now in doubt. Holistic ecosystem approach, encompassing physical, economic, socio-political and cultural factors is required to address the issue.
The UNU-INWEH's focus on the Water-Health Nexus is aimed at the following three broad areas of interest:
- Incorporating Ecosystems into the Health Equation – examines human wellbeing within the context of relationships within the biophysical environment and prevents problems by fostering sustainable, healthy ecosystems
- Incorporating the Hydro-Social System into the Health Equation – examines human health within the context of the system that prevails within a country and determines the flow of water through society, and focuses on water-related illness and diseases.
- Appropriate Provisioning – Approaches and technologies for engagement, ownership and empowerment that facilitate water provisioning.
News & Events
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Share your creativity and help come up with a slogan to support the Sanitation Drive to 2015's campaign to end open defecation. Submit your slogan to the contest today!
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Listen to Dr. Peter Sale, author of Our Dying Planet, discuss the worst environmental crisis civilization has ever faced.
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Read the background document and flyer for World Water Forum Target 1.3.5 Building the Evidence Base at the Water-Health Nexus.
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Read the background document and flyer for World Water Forum Target 1.3.1 Education: the Key to Engagement, Empowerment and Evidence-Based Decision-Making.
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The Water-Health Nexus at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille
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Photo credits (top to bottom): UNICEF, sleepychinchilla, Oxfam East Africa, marcovdz







