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Water Hygenie and Sanitation Issues Of Pakistan

Understanding Improved drinking water and sanitation

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The terms Improved drinking water and sanitation are hard to understand objectively. WHO/UNICEF joint monitoring program has tried to explain it a little forward. To asses the progress on MDGs we need to unpack the definitions of Improved Drinking water supply and Improved Sanitation. This is important to Evaluate access to MDGs on a uniform level, globally.
As a step Farther the term Reducing to Half the access to those having no reach to improved quality of water and sanitation is not very objective, as the number of existing sufferers , not having improved drinking water and sanitation for each country, zone and region needs to be defined on credible basis.
Kindly Feel Free to discuss.
The drinking-water and sanitation ladders
Since its development in the 2008 report, this ladder allows JMP to show what is considered improved and unimproved in a more refined way than the only pass/fail former presentation without changing the MDG definitions. This ladder currently allows a disaggregated analysis of trends in a three rung ladder for drinking-water and a four-rung ladder for sanitation as shown to the right.
For sanitation, this gives an understanding of the proportion of population globally with no sanitation facilities at all, of those reliant on technologies defined by JMP as “unimproved,” of those sharing sanitation facilities of otherwise acceptable technology, and those using “improved” sanitation facilities.
Similarly, the water ladder has been prepared showing the global proportion of those using unimproved water sources, those using “improved” sources other than piped household connections and those benefiting from household connections in a dwelling, plot or yard.
These refinements allow countries and the international community to form a clearer understanding of the situation of access to water and sanitation (learn more about JMP and country collaborations). As definitional differences are often the prime cause for discrepancies in the estimates between country figures and JMP estimates, the ladder tries to show where this discrepancy precisely is coming from. This new way of analysing access has become an essential tool for data reconciliation at national level, between the different stakeholders and especially sector agencies and national statistics offices, as well as between the national level and JMP.
Source  http://www.wssinfo.org/definitions-methods/watsan-ladder/

The terms Improved drinking water and sanitation are hard to understand objectively. WHO/UNICEF joint monitoring program have tried to explain it a little forward. To asses the progress on MDGs we need to unpack the definitions of Improved Drinking water supply and Improved Sanitation. This is important to Evaluate access to MDGs on a uniform level, globally.
As a step Farther the term Reducing to Half the access to those having no reach to improved quality of water and sanitation is not very objective, as the number of existing sufferers , not having improved drinking water and sanitation for each country, zone and region needs to be defined on credible basis.
Kindly Feel Free to discuss.
The drinking-water and sanitation ladders
Since its development in the 2008 report, this ladder allows JMP to show what is considered improved and unimproved in a more refined way than the only pass/fail former presentation without changing the MDG definitions. This ladder currently allows a disaggregated analysis of trends in a three rung ladder for drinking-water and a four-rung ladder for sanitation as shown to the right.
For sanitation, this gives an understanding of the proportion of population globally with no sanitation facilities at all, of those reliant on technologies defined by JMP as “unimproved,” of those sharing sanitation facilities of otherwise acceptable technology, and those using “improved” sanitation facilities.
Similarly, the water ladder has been prepared showing the global proportion of those using unimproved water sources, those using “improved” sources other than piped household connections and those benefiting from household connections in a dwelling, plot or yard.
These refinements allow countries and the international community to form a clearer understanding of the situation of access to water and sanitation (learn more about JMP and country collaborations). As definitional differences are often the prime cause for discrepancies in the estimates between country figures and JMP estimates, the ladder tries to show where this discrepancy precisely is coming from. This new way of analysing access has become an essential tool for data reconciliation at national level, between the different stakeholders and especially sector agencies and national statistics offices, as well as between the national level and JMP.
Source  http://www.wssinfo.org/definitions-methods/watsan-ladder/

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