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.

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

• A manual for economic assessment of drinking water interventions
  June 2012
• Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage
  May 2012
• 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
• Costs and benefits of water and sanitation improvements at the global level (Evaluation of the)