Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector - Sanitation Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces. Inadequate sanitation is a major cause of disease world-wide and improving sanitation is known to have a significant beneficial impact on health both in households and across communities. The word 'sanitation' also refers to the maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal. 2008-04-11T16:55:11Z tag:www.emwis.net,2008-04-11:/topics/sanitation http://www.emwis.net/misc_/SEMIDE/Site.gif Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector Water & sanitation data query tool - Sanitation data tag:www.emwis.net,2007-03-20:/topics/sanitation/url812021 2007-03-20T16:32:24Z Jauad El-Kharraz Jauad El-Kharraz by the Joint Monitoring Programe (JMP) for Water Supply & Sanitation. This page enables you to produce customized tables displaying one or several parameters for one or several countries between 1990 and 2004.