A public awareness and fundraising campaign is underway as America’s Swimming Pool Company launches its Clean Water Matters effort in partnership with OneWorld Health. The initiative supports OneWorld Health’s mission to provide a clean water source to hospitals in East Africa and Central America.
This powerful family portrait series shows that although the global water crisis has improved over the past 15 years, it's still far from over.
Note: There is no narration for this PSA. To have clean water downstream in our rivers and lakes we need healthy water upstream. U.S. Environmental Protectio...
Half the developing world’s hospital beds are occupied by people made ill from drinking unclean water – and it’s preventable. The IET Innovation Award-winnin...
There are many cheap and effective ways to provide safe water to the world’s poor regions. But projects often fail due to inadequate planning, maintenance or persuasive power
Learn from one city's fight against water pollution.
What are tracing dyes and why is it important for water flow systems?
The question, "Why filter water?" can be easily answered after a few swigs of the pure liquid. Clean water does wonders for your body and your health!
Behold the remarkable ways in which machine learning can improve water sanitation systems while bettering the lives of billions.
Public water systems traveling into large facilities are living biological ecosystems that harbor and distribute potentially harmful, naturally occurring bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium and Legionella. Nationally, our drinking water
We know that the world is covered in water. Continents are like large islands in the planet’s much more expansive oceans. 75% of the Earth is covered in water. Yet access to clean, fresh drinking water is a major world concern. An infograph I ran across on world water day helps to show, in a …
Unless African cities improve water management many will face severe water problems by 2035.
When it comes to clean to drinking water there are an array of water filtration systems that are available on the market. Each filtration system will remove different types of particles depending...
Some 650 million people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water. Add that to the more than 2.3 billion without sanitation, and you have a health crisis that every year claims the lives of 315,000 children under five from diarrheal diseases. World Water Day is a time to reflect upon the impact this has, from the moment a child is born until they are grown, with a family of their own. It is also a time to imagine a…
Access to clean, potable water is critical to our daily lives. People need water to drink, to bathe, to wash their hands, to cook, to…
Collons experiences clean, running water for the first time.
As World Water Day approaches some 2.1 billion people globally lack safe drinking water. The costs in childhood mortality and chronic illness are huge.
In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, learn the basics about clean water and sanitation, two everyday necessities many people take for granted. Unfo...
Decide to be proactive, not reactive on issues like water quality.
Oxfam is providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene education in some of the world’s poorest countries. In fact, it’s one of the things we do best.