This is a representative list of resources relating water/sanitation/hygiene to other sectors; this list is a work in progress. Please note that many of the websites listed below are rich sources of information on many other aspects of water/sanitation/hygiene.

For links to general resources on water, sanitation and/or hygiene, please click here.

Corporations and Water

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR): Water Issues
BSR is a global organization that helps member companies achieve success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

CEO Water Mandate
Launched in July 2007, the CEO Water Mandate is a unique public-private initiative designed to assist companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of water sustainability policies and practices.

CERES: Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity
CERES is a coalition of North American investors, environmental and public interest organizations united to advance corporate responsibility by looking at environmental and social issues.

Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
GEMI’s Water Sustainability Work Group has developed a tool to help companies better understand their relationships to water.

Water for Business
Initiatives from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to guide sustainable water management in the private sector.

Economic Development & Water

Making Water a Part of Economic Development: The Economic Benefits of Improved Water Management and Services.
This 2005 report articulates the close link between water and the economy and makes the case that investing in water management and services is absolutely essential for the eradication of poverty and is a necessary condition for enabling sustained economic growth.

Safer Water Better Health.
This comprehensive overview provides the epidemiological evidence and economic arguments for fully integrating water, sanitation and hygiene in countries' disease reduction strategies.

Gender and Water

Expert Meeting Group on Gender-disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation
December 2008 conference to take stock of existing gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation at global and regional levels, to identify obstacles to collecting such data and to make recommendations to improve the state of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation.

UN Water Task Force on Gender and Water
Among the Task Force's objectives are the promotion of gender mainstreaming in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to water and sanitation and the promotion of coherence and coordination of activities by UN Water members and partners in this area. Please note the 2008 Expert Group Meeting on Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation (see entry above).

For Her It's the Big Issue: putting women at the center of water supply, sanitation and hygiene

Gender and Water Alliance (GWA)
The mission of GWA is to promote women’s and men’s equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and environmental sustainability.

Water Letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Health and Water

Carter Center
The Carter Center has several programs addressing water-related diseases.

Center for Global Safe Water (CGSW),
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
CGSW conducts applied research, evaluation, and training to promote global health equity through universal access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for the world's most vulnerable populations.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC is a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.

Clean Water: What is Acceptable Microbial Risk?
This report from the American Academy of Microbiology examines the risks related to pathogens in the water supply and puts forth recommendations for areas of research, communication needs, and methods of microbial risk assessment.

Environmental Health Project (EHP)
EHP, an initiative of USAID, maintains an online database of technical documents dating from the 1980s.

Handwashing Handbook
The Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing is a global initiative to promote handwashing with soap to reduce diarrhea, a major cause of child mortality in many countries today.

Global Handwashing Day - October 15
Handwashing with soap is the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent diarrheal and acute respiratory infections, which take the lives of millions of children in developing countries every year. On Global Handwashing Day, playgrounds, classrooms, community centers, and the public spaces of towns and cities around the world will be awash with activity to drive handwashing behavior change, bringing the critical issue to center stage.

Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP)
HIP is a USAID-funded program that works at scale to improve and sustain hygiene practices.

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs: Safe Water (CCP)
CCP works with local governments, communities, and organizations to communicate the benefits of safe water and clean environments.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – Hygiene Centre
The Hygiene Centre seeks to develop a better understanding of hygiene and sanitation practices which can be used to inform public health policy and to apply that knowledge to help improve hygiene, sanitation and household water treatment worldwide.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
This international public health agency is working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. Information on water-related disease can be found on this page regarding neglected diseases. Additional information on drinking water, especially disaster response, can be found here.

Safe Drinking Water Alliance (SDWA)
SDWA, in addition to CCP, includes Procter & Gamble (P&G), CARE and Population Services International (PSI). They work to further the use of point-of-use (POU) technologies globally to assist those without access to potable water.

Safer Water Better Health
This WHO-produced report depicts country-by-country estimates of the burden of disease due to water, sanitation and hygiene and highlights how much disease could be prevented through increased access to safe water and better hygiene.

Toolkit on Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water in Schools.
This website provides information and resources regarding the need, sector assessments, and the project cycle.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Quantifying the health impact at national and local levels in countries with incomplete water supply and sanitation coverage.
This recently published guide from the WHO describes how to estimate the disease burden caused by water, sanitation and hygiene, on a national and regional level. It outlines the evidence linking water, sanitation and hygiene to health, and the methods for assessing its impacts on a population basis. This is done in a practical step-by-step approach that can be adapted to local circumstances and knowledge.

World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO site for drinking water includes information on activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programs and offices working on this topic.

Schools and Water

Project Wet
The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators, and communities of the world with water education.

Sanitation Connection
The Sanitation Connection provides links to publications, web sites and mailing lists for information related to school sanitation.

Toolkit on Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water in Schools.
This website provides information and resources regarding the need, sector assessments, and the project cycle.

Towards Effective Programming for WASH in Schools: A Manual on Scaling Up Programs for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools
The manual deals with school water, sanitation and hygiene education. It describes many of the elements needed for scaling up programs for water, sanitation and hygiene in schools while ensuring quality and sustainability.

UNICEF Voices of Youth
This website provides information, games, and ideas on how to take action on water, sanitation and hygiene.

Water Rights and Wrongs: A young people's summary of the United Nations Human Development Report 2006
The young people of the world produced this booklet that includes drawings, poems and human stories on water and development, entirely made by and for young people. It's available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Basque.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools
The IRC provides a list of resources for water/sanitation/hygiene in schools.

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