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Sustainable Water Services 2023-11-19

SunWASH: Life-saving toilets

2023 World Toilet Day: Around the globe, 3.5 billion people lack access to safe toilet facilities. Bad hygiene is a killer, and it can only be fought with better sanitation and hygiene.

Sustainable Water Services 2023-10-19

Solar-powered drinking water for 23,000 people in Makere

Water Mission and the Grundfos Foundation recently celebrated an important milestone: A single solar-powered waterwork providing nearly 23,000 people with access to safe water in Makere, Western Tanzania. This effort is both changing lives and gaining recognition from the country's government officials.

Urban water resilience 2023-05-18

INTO DUST receives Lighthouse Award

A prestigious Lighthouse Award, honoring pioneers and visionaries within the water sector, has been awarded to INTO DUST, a docudrama based on the true story of Perween Rahman who fought to provide clean, safe water to the poorest in Pakistan’s capital Karachi.

Urban water resilience 2022-09-13

Accelerating better water management

C40 Cities launches Phase Two of the Water Safe Cities project to accelerate better water management following the successful delivery of Phase One of C40’s Water Safe Cities project, which found that climate-related flooding and drought expected to impact millions of people and cost world’s major cities $194 billion annually

Urban water resilience 2022-06-22

Climate-related flooding and drought expected to cost world’s major cities $194 billion annually

C40 Cities study finds that without urgent action, millions more people around the globe will face grave risks from river flooding, along with more frequent and severe drought by 2050. C40 city mayors will collaborate to develop and deliver upon data-driven commitments to address the impacts of drought and flooding in cities globally.

Sustainable Water Services 2022-03-08

Water is a must for girls in school

Girls’ educational opportunities are particularly affected by the global water crisis. Not only can contaminated water make them too sick to attend school, but they also typically shoulder the burden of collecting water for their families. Losing out on an education impacts their economic prospects in the future.

Sustainable Water Services 2020-09-24

New partnership to bring clean water to the world’s refugees

PlanBørnefonden (Plan International) and the Grundfos Foundation (Poul Due Jensen Foundation) team up with Water Mission to bring clean water to the many refugees in Ethiopia. The ambition is to create a sustainable model that can be used in refugee camps around the world.

Sustainable Water Services 2020-08-18

New partnership to amplify water’s story

In 2021, SIWI will leverage the World Water Week platform to improve the quality, accuracy, and intensity of reporting and storytelling on water through capacity building for journalists and communicators under the World Water Week Communications Initiative – all thanks to a grant from the Grundfos Foundation.

Sustainable Water Services 2019-10-30

Solar-powered drinking water for 200,000 in Western Tanzania

On 24 October, after three years of work, the Foundation inaugurated Borehole 2 in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp. With the last of three boreholes in use, the Foundation's water projects provide drinking water for almost 150,000 refugees in Western Tanzania. The Foundation could also celebrate having reached over 50,000 Tanzanians in poor rural communities outside the camp.