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Interest: Water
Nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water, and the consequences are fatal. Diarrhea is one of the leading killers of children under the age of five. Fortunately, the solutions needed to access clean water can be affordable and reliable. With informed design and management, drawing water, transporting and purifying it are all possible for everyone worldwide.
Interest: Water
Can Handwashing with Ash or Soil Prevent COVID-19?
Handwashing with ash or soil is traditional in impoverished or remote communities that do not have easy access to soap. Are those methods effective at preventing the spread of...
Overcoming Financial Barriers to Household Water Connections...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series about lessons learned during Safe Water Network’s experience household connections for water supplies in Ghana. The first article outlines...
The Catastrophic Intersectionality of WASH, Climate Change a...
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has caused social and economic disruption worldwide and a reckoning of the balance in our priorities between public health and the economy. Our global response...
Fifty Years of Green Action Say We Can Deliver Clean Water t...
When it came to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), growing up in India, I had two opposite scenarios in my two sets of grandparents homes. My paternal grandmother never...
E4C Visualized: The Benefits and Challenges of Desalination ...
Desalination technologies are increasingly important. Only 2.5 percent of all the water on Earth is freshwater suitable for drinking or irrigation. As populations grow and sea levels rise with...
The Link Between Clean Water, Climate Change and COVID-19
World Water Day and the theme this year is water and climate change. Dr. John Matthews, E.D.-AGWA, is a veteran of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP. He...
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