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Afghanistan National Guidelines for WASH in Emergency
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Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services
Water supply services in Afghanistan are limited and access to improved water infrastructures
is among the lowest in the world. According to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of
WHO-UNICEF 2015, the proportion of the population using an improved water source is 55%,
with important differences between rural (47%) and urban areas (78%). With only 32% of the
population having access to improved sanitation (rural: 27% and urban 45%), the situation with
regard to sanitation continues to be very poor. Safe hygiene behaviors like hand washing with
soap at critical times is practiced by less than 30% of people in 24 out of 34 provinces (ALCS