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According to the recent\xa0report\xa0from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, coverage of safely managed water and sanitation supplies has improved globally since 2000, but the world is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal targets related to universal coverage. Placing a special emphasis on gender, the JMP report notes that inadequate access to water and sanitation, as well as hygiene services, affects men and women in significant, but different, ways. In this episode, Sera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University and senior associate with the CSIS Food and Water Security Program, discusses the relationship between gender and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and explains why it\u2019s important to gather data, not just about men\u2019s and women\u2019s access to water and sanitation infrastructure but also about how individuals\u2019 experience of water insecurity affects their physical and mental health. Armed with data about access and impacts, communities can raise awareness, demand policy change, and oversee improvements in the WASH sector.