The latest on our work and those supporting it
How to Wash Your Hands Without Running Water: World Hand Hygiene Day 2024
As camping enthusiasts will tell you, washing your hands without running water takes some thought and practice. In honor of the upcoming World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 on May 5th, we’re showing you how handwashing is done in regions without water readily available at home. Handwashing, as you might already have learned during a certain […]
Water is a Lifeline: Empowering Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Health Worker Week calls for policies to help essential healthcare workers feel “safe and supported.” Where The Water Project works, health workers struggle for safe water.
Cholera 2024: A Startling Rise in Entirely Preventable Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa
The world has seen an increase in cholera cases in sub-Saharan Africa. Here’s what The Water Project does to combat cholera where we work.
How Water Scarcity Breeds Violence
Where essential resources are scarce, the likelihood of violence of any type goes up. When people get desperate, they fight with others to secure enough resources for themselves and the ones they love. Constant strife, or even constant discomfort, is bound to make anyone irritable. This concept makes sense intuitively. But it’s still shocking to […]
Change Happens Once People Get Access to Water
Like rings that expand outwards from a drop of water in a pool, big changes start to happen once The Water Project installs a new protected water source in a community.
A Feel-Good Look Back: How Water Improved Health in 2023
We talk a lot about the devastation of the water crisis here at The Water Project, trying to get the urgency of its effects across to people who might not understand. But that’s only one perspective. The other side we’re sharing today is how lives improve drastically once donors like you help bring safe, reliable […]
When Clean Water Isn’t an Option: How People in Western Kenya Cope
Life without clean water is very challenging. It has been said repeatedly that “water is life,” and without it, life can be so difficult. But how do people survive without safe and clean water? What do they do? To find answers, I met with a few people in Western Kenya currently living without clean and […]
Global Handwashing Day: Why Handwashing is More Important than Ever in a Post-COVID-19 World
With the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, one thing I have not heard consistently is officials encouraging communities to maintain the basic rule of hand hygiene to prevent the spread of other infectious diseases.
The Ripple Effects of Carrying Water Long Distances
Worldwide, 26% of people (a total of 2 billion out of the world’s approximate 7.8 billion) must leave their homes to get water for their families. To say this implies a simple daily journey from A to B and back again. But while this may be the case for some water fetchers, the trip is […]