"Turning slums around: The case for water and sanitation ", written by Timeyin Uwejamomere and published in October 2008 by WaterAid, is a  research presents that sanitation and water improvements have always been at the forefront of progressive city authorities and national health, environmental and economic gains.

This paper takes the broader view that slum conditions also affect other groups of urban poor without access to public facilities – small vendors in market places, pavement dwellers, street children and the relatively invisible small town residents etc –, so the term slum is not restricted to those living in the slums.

This policy brief was developed by the Inter-agency Task Force on Gender and Water (GWTF), a sub-programme of both UN-WAter and the Interagency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) in support of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life,” 2005-2015.

Because of their dependence on water resources, women have accumulated considerable knowledge about water resources, including location, quality and storage methods.