Water, health and economics

Assessing the costs and impacts of different technical and policy actions provides a critical input to decision taking and policy making. WHO has developed and applied methods to apply such analysis to water sanitation and hygiene interventions and has worked with global and regional partners to undertake and publish studies. A major area of work is to adapt these methods so that they are appropriate for use at national and project scales.

New reports

• Valuing water, valuing livelihoods
  Guidance on social cost-benefit analysis of drinking-water interventions, with special reference to small community water supplies. 2011
• Report of the first workshop on costing of improved drinking-water supply systems for low-income communities - Khon Kaen 3-6 March 2008
  pdf, 1.16Mb
• Report of the second workshop on costing of improved drinking-water supply systems for low-income communities - Luang Prabang, 2008
  pdf, 640kb

Related documents

• Water Quality Interventions to Prevent Diarrhoea: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness
• Global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal for water supply and sanitation
• Economic and health effects of increasing coverage of low cost household drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to countries off-track to meet MDG target 10
• Making water a part of economic development: The economic benefits of improved water
• Driving development by investing in water and sanitation
  pdf, 2.94Mb
  This document is a summary of the report listed above.
• Costs and benefits of water and sanitation improvements at the global level (Evaluation of the)