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This document provides an overview on all related updates for SDG 6 until its issue date.
WHO UNICEF (2017): Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Update and SDG Baselines 2017. Geneva: PDF![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/United%20Nations%20Human%20Rights%20office%202011%20%20Guiding%20principles%20on%20business%20and%20human%20rights.png)
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This volume of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality explains requirements to ensure drinking-water safety, including minimum procedures and specific guideline values, and how those requirements are intended to be used. The volume also describes the approaches used in deriving the guidelines, including guideline values. It includes fact sheets on significant microbial and chemical hazards.
WHO (EDITOR) (2011): Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Fourth Edition. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) URL [Accessed: 11.07.2018]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/Barlow%202013_%20The%20blue%20future.png)
In this book, Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.” Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as government policies that work for both people and the planet.
BARLOW, M. (2013): Blue future – Protecting water for the people and the planet forever. URL [Accessed: 20.06.2018]This article assesses risks water supply and sanitation providers in Peru are facing and proposes as solution a risk protection scheme.
WSP (EDITOR) (2012): Peru: Disaster Risk Management in Water and Sanitation Utilities Volume I: Catastrophic Risk Profile, Mitigation Measures and Financial Protection. The Case of SEDAPAL and EMAPICA. Lima: World Bank URL [Accessed: 20.06.2018]There are a variety of entities in Alaska working towards improving health outcomes in rural Alaska by providing and improving water services in villages. The US Arctic Research Commission (USARC) is coordinating these groups so that this work is maximally efficient and ideas can be shared across federal, state, Alaska Native, and academic groups. The group we coordinate is called the Alaska Rural Water and Sanitation Working Group and our work is directly applicable to the USARC’s priority goal of Arctic Human Health.
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This paper compares water and sanitation system options for a coastal community across selected sustainability metrics, including environmental impact (i.e., life cycle eutrophication potential, energy consumption, and global warming potential), equivalent annual cost, and local human health impact.
The GreenFacts Initiative is a non-profit project with an independent Scientific Board and a non-advocacy policy. Its mission is to bring complex scientific consensus reports on health and the environment to the reach of non-specialists. GreenFacts publishes clear, faithful, and verified summaries of existing scientific reports on health, the environment and sustainable development.