WHO is working with the government of Mauritania to improve water quality, sanitation and hygiene for its most vulnerable people.

In Mauritania, life expectancy is less than 60 years. Twenty years of drought have caused a profound demographic transformation in this country, which is 90% desert. The nomadic population has rapidly declined, with people settling in rural areas and in shantytowns in cities where access to clean water and sanitation is scarce.