Environment, Climate Change, One Health and Migration
We work to prevent disease and promote health by addressing key areas of environmental health including climate change, clean energy; air quality; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); and chemicals and radiation. Health threats are addressed through a One Health approach....

Water, sanitation and health

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Publications and documents

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The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) produces internationally comparable estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)...

Global benefits and costs of prioritized actions on climate change and health: technical report

This technical report presents a global assessment of the health, environmental and economic benefits and costs of scaling up six prioritized climate–health...

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Safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) remained fundamental to health, disease prevention, resilience and equity in 2025, but the global context for...

Key ingested per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and their health effects: landscape review

The World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned a landscape review to systematically collect and assess available data sources on PFAS occurrence and...

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Drinking-water quality: a roadmap

WASH annual report

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Safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) remained fundamental to health, disease prevention, resilience and equity in 2025, but the global context for...

WASH Strategy

WHO water, sanitation, hygiene and waste strategy 2026-2035

Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, while climate shocks, outbreaks, migration...

WASH reflections series

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