accommodation with belowstandard water and sanitation infrastructure is highlighted as one of the factors that generate particular vulnerability in poor and predominantly nonwhite communities mcrc nd evidence suggests that people with less access to water and sanitation are more prone to also having other basic needs unmet a situation that exacerbates their economic condition and deprivation of human development prolonging the cycle of poverty the education health and income of parents can play an important role with regard to the opportunities their children may have to move out of poverty in this way poverty of one generation can be handed down to the following undp world bank a inadequate water and sanitation facilities in schools are long known to negatively impact education especially of girls and to hamper social progress undesa figures show that three in ten primary schools lacked an adequate water supply in unesco