Our vision is a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation; a world where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.
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- 1991
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Water For People - An International Development Organization
288 members
$200 donated
$200 donated
- 11 recruited
- $20 raised
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Water For People Water For People work areas are not harmed. However, staff member Ephrone's village is severely damaged. “My village is amongst the worst hit with buildings collapsing and people being shifted to safer areas. My kinsmen are sleeping outside for safety reasons,” Ephrone said. Click below to read more.
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For the past several weeks, earthquakes and aftershocks have hit northern Malawi. A 6.0-magnitude quake in the Karonga district occurred this past Sunday.
Courtney Interesting NY Times series regarding water issues in the US- http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters
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There’s really no point in investing time and money in technical and management systems that aren’t going to last.
Emma I love my "support the movement" t-shirt, thank you!!!
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No lines for Christmas & Hanukkah gifts at the Water For People Online Store! 2010 calendar, greeting cards, cool apparel. Come shopping and show your support for the organization this holiday.
http://www.waterforpeople.org/store
Water For People TIME Magazine talks about the benefits of eco-sanitation (composting toilets)! (remember the photo of Lucy Masaka we posted yesterday? same idea.)
www.time.com
For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eve...
Courtney
If you're in the states, pick up Time Magazine this month!
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/
Guillermo Martinez Pinillos Hola water for people. felicidades. trabaje en el equipo INCADE - bolivia construyendo baños ecologicos en Santa Cruz - San Pedro. sigamos construyendo saneamiento en america del sur
Water For People Not everyday do Presidents support toilets, but they should! Last week Bolivian President Evo Morales came to the small, yet innovative, municipality of Cuchumuela to lay the first stone for the Sanitation Training Center to be built in Cuchumuela. Kate F-Regional Manager, South America
Water For People Would you pay five times what your neighbors pay for piped water for this water? Thousands of people in Cochabamba have no choice but to do that; it's sadly no wonder twice as many babies die in these peri-urban regions than the city 20 minutes away.
Water For People Lucy Masaka in Angelo Goveya, Malawi earns $13/day (good money) selling plants improved by the compost from her latrine.
Saf Hello all from Yorkshire, UK... What I'd like to know is does anyone have any information regarding water purification techniques? Email me please.
Water For People Evidence is mounting - the water challenge is NOT only the people without water but also the failure to sustain past projects. Estimates show that there are 50,000 dysfunctional water supply infrastructures across Africa.
