Sustainable, efficient and environmentally sound management of sanitation, public health and the management of various organic wastes is fundamental to improving human rights and ensuring the well-being of communities.
Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the world's population, a worrying proportion that is likely to increase as temperatures rise. Although 2.1 billion people now have access to improved sanitation facilities, since 1990 water scarcity has been a major problem affecting every continent. More and more countries are experiencing water stress. Increasing drought and desertification are already exacerbating these trends. By 2050, it is predicted that one in four people will be affected by recurrent water shortages.
For this reason, World Future Active has developed a programme of action on urban sanitation and sustainable water management: WASH.
The objective of this programme is to propose integrated approaches that are part of a strong community mobilisation to strengthen liquid and solid waste management practices.
The objective of this programme is to propose integrated approaches that are part of a strong community mobilisation to strengthen liquid and solid waste management practices, on the one hand to improve people's health and on the other hand to safeguard the principles of ecological prudence and sustainable development, and finally to address sanitation needs in order to put in place public services that guarantee quality, sustainability as well as equity of the inhabitants in the face of sanitation improvements.
From the above, World Future Active has the following objectives
- To assess the efficiency and coherence of existing water and sanitation systems, from a technical, socio-economic and environmental point of view;
- To renew methods of intervention and implementation of sustainable solutions to environmental and health problems
- Advocate to decision-makers, operators and donors for improved services through partnerships between operators, municipalities and associations working in the water and sanitation sectors.
- Improve the collection of household waste from the point of production to the collection points.
- Promote intervention methods to better involve social actors in the household waste collection system;
-Develop appropriate communication tools to promote a change of attitude and behaviour towards water and sanitation management issues.