{"id":53373,"date":"2024-09-03T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldof8billion.org\/?p=53373"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:29:07","slug":"sanitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldof8billion.org\/es\/sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanidad: Una introducci\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanitation and clean water access are recognized as human rights by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwater.org\/water-facts\/human-rights-water-and-sanitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a>, but access to well-managed sanitation systems is a global challenge. Sanitation refers to having clean water available for drinking and cleaning, and having a system in place for handling human waste. While people have struggled to have proper sanitation throughout history, it is increasingly difficult with a growing population. Ancient civilizations buried their waste away from living environments and over time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/objects-and-stories\/everyday-wonders\/flushed-away-sewers-through-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improvements in sanitation<\/a> have progressed from latrines, to toilets, to fully managed sanitation systems. Even with improvements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/sanitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of people lack access to well-managed sanitation systems<\/a> and many people live without private toilets or the resources for sanitary handwashing.<\/p>\n<p>Improved access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/28-06-2023-improving-access-to-water--sanitation-and-hygiene-can-save-1.4-million-lives-per-year--says-new-who-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could save 1.4 million lives a year<\/a>. The majority of these deaths are happening in low and middle income countries but there are challenges with sanitation in higher income countries too. The challenges include lack of access to basic sanitation, inadequate or poorly managed sanitation systems, and contaminated water. Open defecation is still a problem in the present day but it has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/en\/opendata\/world-toilet-day-420-million-people-are-defecating-outdoors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decreased significantly since 2000<\/a>. Sanitation infrastructure cannot keep up with the rapid growth of cities but even though there are many sanitation challenges in urban areas, <a href=\"https:\/\/ongawa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Rural-sanitation_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">66 percent of people without access to basic sanitation live in rural areas<\/a>. Poor sanitation has an impact on human wellbeing and is a public health concern. Lack of access to sanitation is costly and can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2019\/11\/19\/toilets-the-economic-impact-of-sanitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">limit a country&#8217;s economic growth<\/a> while contributing to multidimensional poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Global access and the sustainable management of sanitation and water is Goal 6 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas<\/a> (SDGs). Even with the global focus on sanitation, none of the targets for SDG 6 are on track to be met by the 2030 deadline. And some targets are especially behind &#8211; to reach the goal of \u2018safely managed sanitation systems worldwide\u2019 by 2030, current progress would need to quadruple. New construction of sanitation facilities is needed for more than 800 million people to have access to adequate sanitation systems. And many areas will need improvements to make their current sanitation infrastructure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wateraid.org\/washmatters\/blog\/climate-resilient-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-importance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resilient to a changing climate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/toilet-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Toilet Day<\/a> helps raise awareness about sanitation access worldwide. While making sure all people have access to basic sanitation would be a great step in the right direction, more will need to be done to reach and maintain SDG 6\u2019s targets in the future.<\/p>\n<p><!----comment node----><!--a=1--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanitation and clean water access are recognized as human rights by the United Nations, but access to well-managed sanitation systems&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contest-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2024-2025 Global Topic Introductions: Sanitation | World of 8 Billion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sanitation and access to clean water are recognized human rights. 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