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Water and Sanitation

Cookie Monster: The Ultimate Impatient Optimist

Impatient Optimists | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
Read More: Pbs, Sesame Street, Global Health, Poverty, Children, Melinda Gates, Impatient Optimists, Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Water and Sanitation, Globalmotherhood, Sanitation, Impact News
Impatient Optimists

Today, 2.5 billion people don't have access to toilets. Investing in sanitation leads to healthier people and stronger communities. The Bill & Mel...

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Sparks of Innovation Help to Battle the Water and Sanitation Crisis

David Winder | Posted 05.15.2013 | Impact
Read More: Women's Empowerment, World Water Day, Millenium Development Goals, International Development, Health, Innovation, Global Poverty, Water and Sanitation, Water Crisis, Impact News
David Winder

Although small, new innovative water and sanitation projects are inspiring. In the face of adversity, communities are showing that a little creativity and the determined will to work hard to control their own destiny.

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Female Entrepreneurs Get Sh*t Done

Lindsay Stradley | Posted 10.12.2012 | Business
Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Business, Global Poverty, Opportunity, Opportunity-Working, Water and Sanitation, Sanitation, Business News
Lindsay Stradley

The business not only created a corrupt life in which cops had to be bribed and her children often went hungry, but a dangerous one; some customers assume that since Agnes sold the liquor that she was also a prostitute.

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Ghana -- the Gateway to Africa

David Weiss | Posted 06.26.2012 | World
Read More: Ghana, Economic Growth, Water and Sanitation, Emerging Markets, Ghana Development, World News
David Weiss

The Ghanaian people are rightly optimistic about their future, and that optimism can be felt throughout all levels of the country and its communities. It is a country on the move and a place to watch in the future.

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"Kony 2012": Why It Worked

John Travis | Posted 06.06.2012 | Impact
Read More: Uganda, Sout Sudan, Africa Water Wells, Africa, Joseph Kony, Drop in the Bucket, Water Wells, Water and Sanitation, Lira, Lra, Lord's Resistance Army, Water, Clean Water Africa, Acholi, Kony 2012, Gulu, Invisible Children, Impact News
John Travis

"Kony 2012" and why people can only help if they know what is going onBy now you have all most likely seen the "Kony 2012" video and I'm guessing you ...

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A Smart Investment

Jan Eliasson | Posted 01.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Water, Sanitation, Global Water Sanitation, Water Sanitation and Disease, Wateraid, Water Sanitation and Illness, NGO WaterAid, Water Sanitation, Water and Sanitation, Health News, Healthy Living News
Jan Eliasson

Water and sanitation is a smart, lifesaving investment. It does not just save lives. It also offers an outstanding economic return to countries and people in Africa and Asia.

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Liberia's Long Road: Emergency to Sustainable Development

Jan Eliasson | Posted 09.21.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: President Johnson-Sirleaf, Water and Sanitation, Healthy Living Health News, Water Safety, Global Health, Liberian Development, Healthy Living Body, Liberia Development, Healthy Living News
Jan Eliasson

The water and sanitation situation is particularly critical. Three out of four people have no access to safe water, six out of seven are without access to toilets; diarrhea accounts for 19 percent of Liberia's high child mortality rates ...

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Social Entrepreneurship With $600, 40 Men and Four Days

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Conscious Capitalism, Parkinomics, Conscious Entrepreneurship, Eco Villages, The Gambia, Social Entrepreneurship, Water, Africa, Green, Senegal, Living Routes, Green Living, Water and Sanitation, Sanitation, Sustainable, Impact News
Alexia Parks

Nineteen-year-old social entrepreneur Bianca Griffith, who at the moment is taking time out from college to build a small six cottage eco-hotel along the west coast of Africa, in The Gambia.

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Matt Damon's Commitment to Bill Clinton

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: 2009 Clinton Global Initiative, Global Health, Matt Damon, Development, water.org, Water and Sanitation, Haiti, World News
Katherine Gustafson

As good as his movies are and as dazzling as his hundred-watt smile is, the best thing about Matt Damon is that he just announced that his non-profit, Water.org, will provide clean water to 50,000 people in Haiti.

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A Forgotten Glass Ceiling: A Safe Drink of Water

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Women's Issues, Children, Gender and Development, Water-Related Diseases, Water and Sanitation, Water Crisis, Water and Health, Sanitation, Education, Diarrhea, Women's Health, Water, Environment, Children's Health, International-Development, World News
John Sauer

If people joined together to support water and sanitation projects they could immediately help woman shatter the most basic of glass ceilings -- access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

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Everyone Needs a Place to Go

Jan Eliasson | Posted 05.21.2013 | Impact
Read More: Mdgs, Water, United Nations, International Year of Water Cooperation, Sanitation, Open Defecation-Free, Sanitation Challenge, Millenium Development Goals, Open Defecation, Water Sanitation, Sanitation Project, Water and Sanitation, Water Sanitation Challenge, Sanitation Access, Water and Sanitation Challenge, Un, Impact News
Jan Eliasson

It is difficult to understand why, in 2013, about 2.5 billion people around the world still lack access to adequate sanitation. More people have cell phones than toilets in today's world.

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