WaterAid

ALT White text on a blue background. The text reads: Clean water is a basic human right

ALT A boy, Kicquer, walks on bricks near his flooded home. He is dressed in all black white white socks and sandals. His quote reads: "The floods really affected my education. I had just bought a pack of notebooks and a school bag, but all my materials went with the water. I didn't study for three months."

ALT A photo of a woman in a checked saree smiling off centre - her name is Shabana and the text reads: For years, Shabana used a toilet built in the corner of a field near her home in Khulna, Bangladesh.

ALT A photo of a woman wearing a checked saree with two small children and a baby on her lap. Text reads: I always felt exposed using that toilet. Sometimes I waited until 3am to use it. Imagine what kind of discomfort that was causing me.

ALT A photo of the same woman Shabana in front of a toilet with a roof. She carries a small red jug in her hand. Text reads: Now, Shabana has a decent toilet she can use when she needs to. It has a door with a lock, a proper roof, and is raised up to avoid floodwaters.

ALT Shabana the same woman from before wearing a checked saree, washes her sons feet with water from a jug. Text reads: I am not scared anymore while going to the toilet.

ALT A girl in a green tshirt and grey pants walks towards a yellow toilet block labelled girls toilet. Text reads: Female-friendly toilets help keep women safe.

ALT Three girls run outside their school toilets - wearing different coloured clothes with headscarves. The building in the background is yellow. Text reads: "Decent toilets help keep children in school"

ALT A South-Asian man stands in front of the entrance to a toilet, the wall of which is painted blue. He is carrying a jug and wearing a blue lungi. Text reads: "Toilets help stop the spread of deadly diseases like diarrhoea and cholera."

ALT A woman waters plans with a large watering can. In the foreground are lots of plants.

ALT An orange background with a photo of men and boys carrying jerry cans of water out of a dried up stream. Text reads: What is the Global Goal on Adaptation?

ALT An orange background with a woman wearing a pink saree on her way to an outdoor toilet on the banks of a river. Text reads: The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) is intended to reduce countries’ vulnerabilities to climate change and improve their ability to adapt to its effects.

ALT A woman carries walks along a dried up river bed carrying a basket on her head. Text reads: There are seven thematic targets: water and sanitation, food, health, ecosystems and biodiversity, human settlements, poverty eradication, livelihoods and cultural heritage.

ALT A man scoops water from a source of dirty water dressed in a brown shirt. Text reads: At COP29, countries must agree on indicators to monitor progress on each of these targets. The GGA framework will then be formally adopted at next year’s climate talks in Brazil.

ALT A man, Abdul, in a striped t-shirt stands in front of a concrete building that collapsed during a cyclone. His quotes reads: "We lost everything that night. The walls and roof of our house were broken, There was no safe water to drink, no food in hand, no sanitation facility and no place to stay."