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Building on a long legacy of pioneering work, SEI explores ways to provide equitable, universal access to hygiene and sanitation, with a focus on systems that offer multiple benefits in terms of health, environmental sustainability, livelihoods and food security.
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Feature / In Chía, Colombia, inadequate waste management is putting lives and ecosystems at risk. We worked with locals to crunch data and calculate scenarios for change.
Perspective / SEI researchers Felipe Benavides and Jeanne Fernandez reflect on a recent tour of Bolivia's Tupiza watershed, where residents have "lost everything."
Media coverage / Access to water and sanitation affects not only survival but also the possibility to live a socially and culturally fulfilling life.
Media coverage / Harnessing the power of faecal matter proves to have benefits not only for sanitation and sewage management but also renewable energy production.
Feature / SEI experts explain how a new project will help Bolivia connect sanitation with watershed management.
Perspective / Researchers working in Lusaka reflect on the connections between health, climate change, urban growth, and collaborative policymaking in urban Africa.
Perspective / Reusing sewage sludge in farming makes economic and environmental sense. But even the safest reuse technologies need to win hearts as well as minds.
SEI brief / The NDC-SDG Connections tool shows there is great potential for policy coherence between implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Perspective / A new tool – the WASH Insecurity Scale – reveals detailed patterns of WASH inequality in an African informal settlement.









