Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene July-August 2015 Vol. 10 No.4 | Page 4

- Comment Drinking Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Education must go Together A ccording to the latest estimates of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), 32 per cent of the world’s population – 2.4 billion people – lacked improved sanitation facilities, and 663 million people still used unimproved drinking water sources in 2015. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled w