UN-Habitat’s 2024 Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance Annual Report highlights global efforts to strengthen public water and sanitation utilities through solidarity-based peer support. The report showcases how Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) are helping utilities deliver better, more inclusive services – advancing sustainable urbanization and the human right to water and sanitation.
This Annual Report gives an overview of the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2023.
The first phase of the Water Operators' Partnership (WOP) between VEI and Bayawan Water District, Carcar
The Water Operator's Partnership between VEI and Nakuru County from 2017 to 2021 had the main goal to increase and improve water and sanitation services in Nakuru County in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by promoting benchmarking activities, increasing water and sanitation coverage, increasing water supply, improving distribution management (non-revenue water, and establishing a strong customer-support mechanism.
This Annual Report reflects the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2022.
World Toilet Day is significant as we face a global sanitation crisis.
SDG 6.2 on safe access to sanitation services is off track with over 3.6 billion people lacking safely managed sanitation services. This World Toilet Day highlights the importance of sanitation for the protection of groundwater sources that have been reliable sources of fresh water for the planet.
Lack of sanitation facilities and services may lead to pollution of groundwater sources through the infiltration of faecal matter into the aquifers.
This Annual Report showcases the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2021.
Although wastewater has been monitored for viruses and pollutants for years, the practice rose to prominence sharply during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have shown that environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 signals, or biomarkers (typically RNA), helps determine both the prevalence of disease and the overall health of a community. As such, it could act as a low-cost early warning system to monitor resurgences or reimportations of disease into communities as a complementary tool to medical testing.
This Annual Report provides an overview of the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2020.
This Annual Report presents the highlights of the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2019.