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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 6

Sustainable Development Goal 6 is about "clean water and sanitation for all". It is one of 17 Sustainable
Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the official wording is:
"Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all" .

The Challenge: Every year millions of people, most of them children, die from diseases associated with
inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Each day, nearly 1000 children die due to
preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases.

Sanitation is the proper disposal of waste water and trash.

Waste water is used water from various sources including: Toilet/Latrine, Bathing, Kitchen, Laundry,
Industry, and Agriculture.

When waste water and trash are not properly disposed they can contaminate:

• Clean water supplies;

• Rivers, lagoons, ocean;

• Ground water.