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    Featured report

    Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2024: special focus on inequalities

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    • Achieving the 2030 targets for safely managed services is increasingly out of reach

      Graphs showing historical rates of progress and projections to 2030 for drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services

    • The population without WASH services is declining except in urban areas and low-income countries

      Bar charts showing WASH services in 2015 and 2024, disaggregated by urban/rural status and income group

    • Inadequate access to drinking water

      2.1 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water

      Despite gains since 2015, 1 in 4 – or 2.1 billion people globally – still lack access to safely managed drinking water, including 106 million who drink directly from untreated surface sources.

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      Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene service ladders

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Our donors

The WHO/UNICEF JMP has an annual budget of US$3–4 million and is extremely grateful for the financial support it receives from external donors and from within WHO and UNICEF. During 2023, the JMP received a total of US$2.9 million, compared with US$1.7 million in 2022. By the end of 2023, development partners had already pledged US$2.7 million for 2024 and smaller amounts for subsequent years up to 2026.

  • ADA (Austria)
  • AfD (France)
  • BMZ (Germany)
  • DFAT (Australia)
  • DGIS (Netherlands)
  • EC (European Commission)
  • Gates Foundation
  • SDC (Switzerland)
  • UKFCDO (United Kingdom)
  • USAID (United States)