Dear All,
Dave brought to my notice that a new progress report on household WASH, titled "Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2024: special focus on inequalities", has been published. It can be accessed here .


Report highlights 
Between 2000 and 2024, the global population rose from 6.2 to 8.2 billion. Over this period, about a quarter of the population (2.2 billion) gained access to safely managed drinking water and a third (2.8 billion) to safely managed sanitation. Yet progress has been uneven and the number of people left behind has fallen more slowly. Since 2015, the distribution of the unserved has shifted: the proportion of the population with sanitation services has risen quickly in rural areas while staying relatively flat in urban areas. However, in terms of raw numbers most of the gains have been realized in urban areas. Basic hygiene access has improved, especially in rural areas; and the share of people unserved has increasingly concentrated in low-income countries.

• Achieving the 2030 targets for safely managed services is increasingly out of reach
• The population without WASH services is declining except in urban areas and low-income countries
• 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

The data on which the report is based is also available on the  WASHdata  website (related discussion  thread ). Further, updated country factsheets can also be downloaded from  Downloads | JMP .  

I encourage members to explore the data and share their findings. I am sure they will interest many.