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Amid COVID-19, Doctors and Nurses Need Clean, Safe Water

Posted March 17th, 2020 by Cinelle Barnes.

Originally published in WASH in Healthcare Facilities, a publication by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, on March 28, 2019. The article has been edited to address health and safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2014, amid the Ebola outbreak, doctors and nurses did not have reliable, accessible safe water in places like Liberia. The same is true now for medical professionals in developing countries. Many of them are caring for the sick in under-resourced and overrun healthcare facilities amid an unprecedented health crisis. In areas reported to be affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), doctors and nurses lack reliable, accessible safe water. To aid them in ... Read More

Count the Cost: 6 Effects of the Global Water Crisis

Posted March 6th, 2020 by Water Mission.

From high infant and mother mortality rates to inflated household expenses, the effects of the global water crisis are costly and far-reaching. Across the world, 2,100,000,000 people bear the physical, financial, social, and emotional costs of the lack of access to clean, safe water: 1 – The global water crisis costs lives. One person dies every 37 seconds from a water-related illness. This includes the 297,000 children under five who die annually from diseases caused by unsafe water or poor sanitation and hygiene practices. 2 – The global water crisis costs money. Without a local safe water solution, residents in Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico, ... Read More

Walk for Water So That Others, Like Jaina, Don’t Have To

May 20, 2017 - Jaina Iddi Mwenda, 58, Community Health Officer for the government and WASH Coordinator for Water Mission in and around her home. Taken by Sean Sheridan, for Water Mission.

Posted February 27th, 2020 by Water Mission.

Imagine that before you could feed your children, go to work, and run your errands, you had to walk several miles to collect water for your daily needs. How would this mundane, time-consuming chore impact your daily routine? And what if the water you gathered was dirty and unsafe, making you, your children, and community sick? To Jaina, a 58-year-old mother in Tanzania, this story is a familiar one. Before Water Mission installed a safe water solution in her community, Jaina was burdened by strenuous walks for water and her family suffered from waterborne illnesses. Daily life was disrupted by the lack of a basic resource. Read More

2019 At A Glance: 600,000 People Received Safe Water, 4,700 Walked for Water, and More

Posted December 26th, 2019 by Water Mission.

If you prayed, volunteered your time, gave a gift, or supported Water Mission in other ways throughout the past year, then you helped us serve more than 600,000 people with safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in 2019. Together, we were the hands and feet of Christ. We… completed safe water projects in 182 communities and 20 countries, provided desperately needed safe water to survivors of natural disasters, traveled to rural areas around the world to install sustainable safe water and sanitation systems, and helped refugees fleeing violence and persecution. We are so grateful for God’s blessings and your support this year. Before we turn the page on 2019, ... Read More

Ugandan Community Thrives, No Longer Drinking Water from Polluted Lake Victoria

Posted December 5th, 2019 by Water Mission.

Grundfos, the world’s largest pump manufacturer, has the vision to help resolve the global water crisis and has invested its technical expertise and financial resources to realize this vision. Water Mission is a natural partner for Grundfos as the two organizations have a shared interest in saving lives and providing hope. The definition of “partnership” is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests. Since the partnership began in 2007, over 2 million people have received access to safe water. Through Grundfos’ best-in-class technology, Water Mission has developed environmentally friendly and sustainable safe water solutions that continue to ... Read More

More than Just a Toilet: Fusing Innovation & Partnerships for a Better World 

Posted November 19th, 2019 by Water Mission.

Today, on World Toilet Day, we celebrate the advancements and alliances that help bring basic sanitation to thousands of people around the world. The sanitation solutions that we install and implement are only possible through our partnerships with innovators such as Pentair and KOHLER. Below is an article that appears on KOHLER’s blog – a summary of how the KOHLER Pour Flush Toilet is changing lives in Honduras and Ghana. By providing access to private latrines, we’ve helped to decrease open defecation rates and give women and girls a safe, discreet place for their sanitation and hygiene needs. Poverty-stricken ... Read More

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Amid COVID-19, Doctors and Nurses Need Clean, Safe Water

Count the Cost: 6 Effects of the Global Water Crisis

Walk for Water So That Others, Like Jaina, Don’t Have To

2019 At A Glance: 600,000 People Received Safe Water, 4,700 Walked for Water, and More

Ugandan Community Thrives, No Longer Drinking Water from Polluted Lake Victoria

More than Just a Toilet: Fusing Innovation & Partnerships for a Better World

More than Just a Toilet: Fusing Innovation & Partnerships for a Better World 