Five Million People Without Safe Water: The Pacific's WASH Gap Across 15 Pacific Island countries and territories, five million people still lack even basic drinking water services, and nine million live without basic sanitation, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme's 2025 report released during World Water Week. The problem isn't only infrastructure, it's time. The gap isn’t only about infrastructure, it's about time. When a contamination event hits a catch
