The pandemic crisis resonates more intensely where the social fabric is already stretched or damaged. Sanitation matters are a worldwide concern that pretty much represents vulnerabilities in our response capacity to "acute" situations, like pandemics, natural or man-made disasters, and as well as hinders the way we address chronic issues related to our civilizational advance.  The actual situation posits a challenge that shows how sanitation is decoupled in a preoccupancy way: the easiest way to stop the spread of a virus is by washing your hands, yet you have larges sums of humanity without access to clean water. The panel will address the many hues of sanitation inequalities and how they connect itself in a broader debate towards de 2030 Agenda. 

The panel will count on the presence of the researchers Dr. Priti Prakih and Loan Diep, from the University College London,  who will address sanitation international agenda under the lens of the intertwined Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Professor Tadeu Malheiros, from the University of Sao Paulo, whose talks concerns sanitation challenges in slums and Rubens Filho, from Trata Brasil Institute, who will address the civil society role and challenges for universal sanitation coverage in Brazil.