Goal 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
One of the targets set as part of SDG 6 was: 'By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations'. Peruse our articles, with free access through the links below, to learn more about the steps being taken to achieve this target, and how much there is to do.
These articles are free to access until December 31, 2016.
Hygiene
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Medicalising menstruation: a feminist critique of the political economy of menstrual hygiene management in South Asia
- Gender, Place and Culture
- Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
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Teaching minority children hygiene: investigating hygiene education in kindergartens and homes of ethnic minority children in northern Vietnam
- Ethnicity & Health
- Thilde Rheinländer, Helle Samuelsen, Anders Dalsgaard & Flemming Konradsen
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Understanding modifiable risk factors associated with childhood diarrhea in an eastern Indonesian urban setting
- International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
- Lindsey Watson, Tomoyuki Shibata, Ansariadi, Alimin Maidin, Ivan Nikitin & James Wilson
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Improving hand hygiene behaviour among adolescents by a planning intervention
- Psychology, Health & Medicine
- Guangyu Zhou, Tingting Jiang, Nina Knoll & Ralf Schwarzer
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The impact of hygiene and localised treatment on the quality of drinking water in Masaka, Rwanda
- Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A
- Monique Uwimpuhwe, Poovendhree Reddy, Graham Barratt & Faizal Bux
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A person-oriented approach to hand hygiene behaviour: Emotional empathy fosters hand hygiene practice
- Psychology & Health
- Claudia Sassenrath, Svenja Diefenbacher, André Siegel & Johannes Keller
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The basis of the modern medical hygiene in the medieval Medical School of Salerno
- The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
- Maurizio Bifulco, Mario Capunzo, Magda Marasco & Simona Pisanti
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Patient empowerment as a driver of hand hygiene practice: time for patients in South Africa to have their say
- Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Marc Mendelson
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Development of Antimicrobial Feminine Hygiene Products Using Bamboo and Aloevera Fibers
- Journal of Natural Fibers
- K. P. Kathirvel & T. Ramachandran
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Education. Period. Developing an acceptable and replicable menstrual hygiene intervention
- Development in Practice
- Emily Wilson, Josephine Reeve & Alice Pitt
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Social Capital and Hygiene Practices among the Extreme Poor in Rural Bangladesh
- Journal of Development Studies
- Rejaul K. Bakshi, Debdulal Mallick & Mehmet A. Ulubaşoğlu
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Cholera and household water treatment why communities do not treat water after a cholera outbreak: a case study in Limpopo Province
- Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Lutendo Sylvia Mudau, Murembiwa Stanley Mukhola & Paul Raymond Hunter
Sanitation
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Ecological sanitation: a sustainable goal with local choices. A case study from Taita Hills, Kenya
- African Geographical Review
- Matias Andersson & Paola Minoia
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Access to sanitation and violence against women: evidence from Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data in Kenya
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research
- Samantha C. Winter & Francis Barchi
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Slum inhabitants’ perceptions and decision-making processes related to an innovative sanitation service: evaluating the Blue Diversion Toilet in Kampala (Uganda)
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research
- Mark O’Keefe, Ulrike Messmer, Christoph Lüthi & Robert Tobias
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Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Colin McFarlane, Renu Desai & Steve Graham
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Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors
- Global Public Health
- Ahmad Komarulzaman, Jeroen Smits & Eelke de Jong
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Why gender matters in the solution towards safe sanitation? Reflections from rural India
- Global Public Health
- Tina Khanna & Madhumita Das
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The integration of water, sanitation and hygiene services into the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: A qualitative study
- Global Public Health
- Lyana B. Mahmoudi, Jennifer L. Platt & Jay P. Graham
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Feasibility study of hybrid energy system for off-grid rural water supply and sanitation system in Odisha, India
- International Journal of Ambient Energy
- Sonali Goel & Renu Sharma
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Valuing the non-user benefits of improving water and sanitation in informal settlements: a study of Cape Town
- Urban Water Journal
- Dorothy Kobel & Romano Del Mistro
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“Bitten By Shyness”: Menstrual Hygiene Management, Sanitation, and the Quest for Privacy in South Africa
- Medical Anthropology
- Fiona Scorgie, Jennifer Foster et al.
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Reality effect or media effect? Television's moulding of the environmental sanitation agenda in Ghana
- African Journalism Studies
- S. Senyo Ofori-Parku
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Analysis of household demand for improved sanitation: the case of green latrines in Dapaong city in Northern Togo
- Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d’études du développement
- Amandine Loyal Laré-Dondarini
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Socio-economic dynamics in slums and implications for sanitation sustainability in Kisumu, Kenya
- Development in Practice
- Sheillah Simiyu
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Centring African culture in water, sanitation, and hygiene development praxis in Ghana: a case for endogenous development
- Development in Practice
- Afia S. Zakiya
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Cost-efficiency of rural sanitation promotion: activity-based costing and experimental evidence from Tanzania
- Journal of Development Effectiveness
- Bertha Briceño & Claire Chase
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Muddying the Water? Assessing Target-based Approaches in Development Cooperation for Water and Sanitation
- Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
- Malcolm Langford & Inga Winkler
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Implementing the human right to water and sanitation: a study of global and local discourses
- Third World Quarterly
- Madeline Baer & Andrea Gerlak
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Exploring alternative sources of funding for deploying sustainable sanitation technologies and services in Mongolia
- International Journal of Water Resources Development
- Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin et al.
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The human right to water and sanitation: is the obligation deliverable?
- Water International
- Salman M.A. Salman
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Water, sanitation and hygiene and indigenous peoples: a review of the literature
- Water International
- Alejandro Jiménez, Moa Cortobius & Marianne Kjellén
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Popular participation, equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas, Venezuela
- Water International
- Rebecca McMillan, Susan Spronk & Calais Caswell
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Understanding and confronting cultural complexities characterizing water, sanitation and hygiene in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Water International
- Emmanuel M. Akpabio & Kaoru Takara
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Slums and informal housing in India: a critical look at official statistics with regard to water and sanitation
- Water International
- K. Christ, K. Baier & R. Azzam