Each year since 2000, the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program has published a very popular Water Cartoon Calendar which uses spot-on and often critical humor to illuminate challenges surrounding water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). With colorful pictures of everyday challenges, from access to running water and toilets to political ignorance of people's everyday problems, the 2017 Cartoon Calendar reminds us there’s still much work to be done. Take a look: Feature Story

SDG #6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all, seeks to reduce the incidence of malnutrition, communicable diseases, and inequities that are directly related to lack of access to improved sources of drinking water (affecting 663 million people worldwide) and improved sanitation (which 2.4 billion people still lack). This new goal implies a commitment by countries to monitor and report on their progress, similarly to what was done for the MDGs, but with much more detail.