Clean water and safe sanitation services have the potential to play a major role in helping the poorest urban communities adapt to climate change, but more needs to be done to enable cities to expand these services, a new report by Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) has found.

Drawing on evidence from seven countries, the report, entitled The Missing Link in Climate Adaptation: How Improved Access to Water and Sanitation is Helping Cities Adapt to Climate Change finds that the importance of clean water and sanitation services in urban climate resilience has been significantly undervalued. The report makes four recommendations for promoting climate resilient water and sanitation services.

Read the full article about water equity at Skoll.