Over one billion people worldwide live without clean, safe drinking water and over two billion without basic sanitation

By 2030, it is expected that 60% of the world\'s population will live in urban areas. 180,000 people are added to the urban population every day.

WSUP supports local service providers around the world to deliver affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services to poor people in urban communities.

Fighting and displacement continue in eastern Congo, but increasingly alongside this we are setting up development projects in the more peaceful areas. One of our major concerns in such projects is whether we will be able to get the participation of the villagers.

The UNICEF management team were therefore very curious to visit our water and sanitation project in Lukananda. Lukananda is a village in the health zone Nyangezi about forty minutes from Bukavu the capital of South Kivu. During the years of fighting the village had never been attacked and the inhabitants had never been displaced. UNICEF had done the project with the BDD the development organization of the diocese and the health department. The project was to build a pipe water system for three villages and improve the sanitation of the village. Sanitation was improved by building: more hygienic latrines with concrete slabs, pig pens to keep animal faeces out of the village and spreading health messages on the importance of cleanliness