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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
2007:30
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan

Publication Year : 2007
Explore More : Working Paper
JEL Classification : C12, C13, C82, C92, E61, E62, G18, H54, I18, I38, O11, O18

Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression for a form of deprivation that threatens life, destroys opportunity and undermines human dignity. Thus, investing in the provision of safe water supply and adequate sanitation is not only a development oriented strategy in itself, it can also yield other socio-economic benefits in terms of improved health status, quality of labour force and reduced burden-of-disease.