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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services are vital for everyone. These services are indispensable to economic development, as well as health, tackling gender inequality and building resilience to climate
\nchange.<\/p>\n

WaterAid\u2019s latest policy paper: \u201cEnding the water, sanitation and hygiene crisis together: policy priorities for accelerating progress\u201d sets out a series of recommendations to countries working to accelerate progress towards sustainable and safe WASH services for all.<\/p>\n

Over the past 20 years, we have seen that real progress is possible when WASH is prioritised in national development. In Nigeria, basic drinking water coverage rose from 43 per cent in 2000 to 73 per cent in 2020. Yet, we are mid-way through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and progress is still unacceptably slow.<\/p>\n

The next decade will see a continued rise in population and rural-urban migration. Climate change, political instability, disease outbreaks and economic downturns pose additional threats to health, water security, food security, the economy, gender equality and social development. Ensuring sustainable and safe WASH will become even more critical to build people\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n

With only seven years to deliver on Sustainable Development Goal 6- clean water and sanitation for all. WaterAid is calling on the government to make WASH a top national priority, champion an inspirational vision and drive institutional reform that has results at all levels. Substantially increase WASH financing, ensuring costed finance strategies are developed, backed by sufficient public funds to build a high- performing sector that attracts finance and improves the quality of spending.<\/p>

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Evelyn Mere, Country Director, WaterAid Nigeria, said:\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cNo one deserves to be denied of their rights to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. We have less than a decade to achieve the 2030 target for
\nSDG 6- clean water and sanitation for all. Sadly, progress to achieve SDG6 is too slow, but there are ways to accelerate change \u2013 by implementing the right WASH policies in government and investing in WASH. Government can provide more, better quality finance for water, sanitation and hygiene in the
\nlong term to achieve and sustain national targets.<\/p>\n

A situation where only 10% of Nigerians have access to basic WASH, 67% use basic drinking water services and per capita volume of water available to our rural population daily is 10 Liters, 40 liters less than the UN accepted standard, is unacceptable and requite urgent action to accelerate change.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to put in place the necessary policies to get back on track and accelerate progress towards universal access by 2030. Governments must lead the way and international organisations, communities, donors and business must play their part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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