World Health Organization - Water, Sanitation and Health (WHO WSH)

WHO promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programmes to control and eradicate disease and strives to improve the quality of human life. Water and sanitation is one of the health topics the WHO is working on. The Water, Sanitation and Health website offers thematic information about drinking water quality; arsenic; water resources; sustainable water supply. It also gives access to training materials; online documents; good practice and tools.
Also available in Spanish and French.

- Address:

Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

- Telephone:

+41 22 791 21 11

- FAX:

+41 22 791 43 21

- E-mail:

info@who.int

- Web:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/

- Org. type:

Intergovernmental

Related sites:

• Division of Infectious Diseases supporting treatment and prevention programmes on various water related diseases
• Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH)
• Water Law and Standards.org
• Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of WHO and UNICEF on water supply and sanitation
• Health-care waste management website