Clean safe water for drinking, washing, and cooking

  • Projects and Solutions
  • Water Harvesting
  • Politics of Water Rights
  • 3.5 million people die each year from water-related disease.
  • 84% of water-related deaths are in children ages 0 – 14.
  • 98% of water-related deaths occur in the developing world.
  • 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
  • The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
  • At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
Projects and Solutions
wateraid_annual_report_2010_1.pdf
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our_water_our_waste_our_town_manual.pdf
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ned-letter-case.pdf
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rethinking-hydrophilantropy.pdf
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Technical manual on community water supply, hygiene and sanitation facilities. 
WaterAid Madagascar, March 2012 
This is a technical manual on how to provide inclusive water supply, hygiene and sanitation facilities in communities. 
Saving Lives: sanitation and water for all would save 2.5 million lives. WaterAid, April 2012
This report shows that providing water and sanitation for all would save 2.5 million lives. 
Le problème de l’assainissement : Que peut et que devrait faire le secteur de la santé? 
La vision de WaterAid est un monde où chacun a accès à des services d’eau potable et d’assainissement. Cette vision ne peut se concrétiser que par un travail en étroite collaboration. 
Progress Report on drinking water and sanitation 2012 
UNICEF, World Health Organisation (WHO), March 2012
Since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation has reported on progress towards achieving Target 7c: reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. 
Water Harvesting
greywater_reuse_jordan.pdf
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Water harvesting techniques for small communities in arid 
areas 
E. Yuen, M. Anda, K. Mathew and G. Ho W. 
Water Science and Technology. Vol. 44 No. 6 (189-194) 2001
water_harvesting.pdf
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Politics of Water Rights
Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements,Struggles and Visions from Around the World 
Belén Balanyá, Brid Brennan, Olivier Hoedeman, Satoko Kishimoto and Philipp Terhorst. 2005
reclaiming_public_water.pdf
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changingtheflow.pdf
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Women and Safe Water – The Ripple Effect
Smart Global Health blog
Posted on Apr 04, 2011 at 10:05 am
Sally Cowal 
Senior Vice President and Chief Liaison Officer
Population Services International 
Women in most of the developing world have the primary responsibility for managing their household’s water supply. Unfortunately, that is not always their choice. Too often, where water is scarce, women are the ones forced to fetch it -- often traveling long distances on foot, sometimes two or three times a day.