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Video: Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (Clinton Global Initiative, 2008) − 60 minutes!

Video: Water/Child Survival (Global Health TV, Global Health Council, 2008)

The Water Report  (WaterAid, 2007)

Soap, Toilets and Taps: A Foundation for Healthy Children − How UNICEF Supports Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene (UNICEF, 2009)

Water: the Works − climate change, over-consumption and poor conservation, the water facts on tap
(poster from DFID Developments #37, 2007)

Lack of sanitation causes distress and death (InfoChange News & Features, India, 2003)

Where death by water is part of daily life: Drive to improve sanitation is the key to educational and 
economic progress (The Guardian, 26 November 2007)

Millennium Development Goals: The eight commandments (The Economist, 2007)
Listen here [click on ‘Briefings’, download, extract and listen to ‘10 Briefing – Poverty’]

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: Simple, Effective Solutions Save Lives (DCPP, 2007)

Water Supply and Sanitation for All: Main Issues and Tendencies  (World Water Forum 4, 2006)

Progress for Children #5: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation (UNICEF, 2006; with links to video
clips from UNICEF TV)

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene: At a Glance  (World Bank, 2005)

Sanitation and Wastewater Management: Saving Public Health and Sustaining Environment (ADB, 2006)

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Links to Health: Facts and Figures  (WHO, 2004)

Environmental Health: At a Glance  (World Bank, 2003)

The role of science in solving the world’s emerging water problems (PNAS, 2005)

Water: Facts and Trends  (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2005)

Where does a litre of water cost more than in central London?

Sanitation: pragmatism works [BMJ ‘Medical milestones’, 2007]  ...  and the winner was Sanitation

Global Water and Sanitation Assessment Report 2000  (WHO/UNICEF, 2000)

Special Report: Water  (The Guardian, 23 August 2003)

Clean water is a right, but it also needs to have a price (The Economist, Nov. 2006)

The State of the World's Children (Annual Reports from UNICEF, from 1996 onwards)

Making Water a Part of Economic Development: The Economic Benefits of Improved Water
Management and Services (SIWI & WHO, 2005)

Investing in the Future: Water's Role in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (Swedish Water House, 2005)

Water and Sanitation for Cities  (Habitat Debate, September 2003)

Excreta's economy: a true experience (Down to Earth, India, 2007)

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Five Decades of Challenges and Achievements in Environmental Sanitation
and Health (WHO, 2004)

How healthy is the world? (BMJ, Dec. 2002)

Soil Transmitted Parasites: Roundworms, Hookworms, Whipworms (wormbusters.org)

Copenhagen Consensus:  home page   Sanitation and Water
     Watch Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world

On the water front (RSA Journal, 2007)

Addressing the Water Crisis: Healthier and More Productive Lives for Poor People (DFID, 2001)

Water and the Rural Poor: Interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (FAO & IFAD, 2008) − map here.

id21 Natural Resources Highlights:  Water (Jan05)   Water (Jan06)   Water 3 (Aug06)  
                                                                Water 4  (Mar07)

Public health reform: Lessons from history (PICE, Municipal Engineer, 2006)

WaterAid  Video: Water for Life  Magazine: Oasis

Sanitation and hygiene: approaches for sustainable development (Jon Lane, WSSCC, 2007)
Quote: At present, about half the planet is clean and about half is, literally, shitty: covered in millions of tons of shit annually by people who lack the dignity and convenience of basic sanitation facilities. This is a world of two halves, a job half-done. Half the world's people have sanitation (collection, transport, treatment and disposal or re-use of human excreta, domestic wastewater and solid waste and associated hygiene promotion) and half do not even have basic sanitation (disposal of human excreta).

Women and Sanitation (UN-Habitat, 2007)

Unheard Voices: Some Voices of India’s Underprivileged Women (UN-Habitat, 2007)
− Mumbai has a population of 15 million. More that half of this population live in slums. Only some of the slums have been legalized and provided with limited piped water supply and a few public latrines. These are grossly inadequate for the entire slum population. In such a scenario, the major burden of searching for water and sanitation facilities is borne by women.

Green TV (short films from WaterAid and others)

Poo Productions (film, music, info. & links, all on the lack of sanitation in developing countries)

UN webcasts [To view these you will need RealPlayer. Free download here]          
     1.  UN: Kofi Annan:  Water Decade 2005-2015
     2.  UN:  Water for Life
     3.  UNESCO:  Water: A Shared Responsibility
     4.  UNICEF: World not on track to meet the MDG goal for sanitation
     5.  UNICEF: World Water Day 2005: glass half empty for fifth of the world’s children
     6.  World Bank: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation
     7.  UNICEF: Clean water for villagers in Niger
     8.  UNICEF: Clean water: getting girls to school in Zambia
     9.  UNICEF: Sudan water
   10.  ADB: Water Voices  (alternatively here)
   11.  World Bank: Why water and sanitation?

Video clips from the Centre for Science and Environment, India
    1.  Faecal attraction: political economy of defecation
    2.  The water supply crisis

WaterAid video: Women: Agents of Change

WaterAid America video: Safe Water for All

TVE video: Clean Living − on Community Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh

YouTube channels:  WaterAid   Water and Sanitation Program   World Bank

The Water Channel (MetaMeta Communications and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education) – an online depository for water videos with >100 videos in 19 categories, including some on sanitation

Gapcast videos on Development (excellent!)

UNICEF radio
   1. Bangladesh: A girl’s story of clean water
   2. Nicaragua and Colombia: Young people help improve water safety in their communities  
   3. Singing for sanitation: A teenager in rural Nepal teaches her village about water safety

World maps, but maps with a difference
      Water    Sanitation     Sewerage      More maps from Worldmapper

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
     If you're a student in Leeds then visit the Museum and travel back in time to 1842 in
     its reconstruction of some of  the worst slums of Victorian Leeds and see  for yourself
     why life expectancy in those days was 40 years at best:
      Life in Victorian Leeds     Museum homepage

See also: The Unserved Billions

Poverty
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
University of Leeds Library catalogue entry
One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty, according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA.  Watch this March 31, 2005 lecture in which Professor Sachs discusses his new book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time which explores the challenge of global poverty. Professor Sachs also shares accounts of his recent visits to Africa and offers practical solutions to the challenge of global poverty, which he contends can be eliminated by 2025.

See what happens when water starts running out in an industrialized country:
The 1996 Drought in Devon (southwest England) [BBC videoclip in Microsoft Producer format]

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