Monitoring by United Nations agencies indicates that only 55% of people in the Pacific have access to safe water and only 30% to adequate sanitation. The gap between urban and rural areas is wide, and compared to the rest of the world, the Pacific is lagging.
A Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) report, which provides diagnostics of five Pacific water utilities—in Fiji, Kiribati, Palau, Samoa, and Solomon Islands—is focused on how members of the Pacific Water and Wastewater Association (PWWA) can best help meet Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) in their countries . . .
