Water Charities

These charity water organizations are helping to bring clean water to some of the poorest nations in the world

All Water Purification is proud to promote the causes of water charities, working to bring clean drinking water to some of the world's poorest countries and most disadvantaged people.

If you are involved with a clean water charity, click to contact All Water Purification. We'll happily publish an article and photographs promoting your good cause, with a link to your donations page.

Charity Water Organizations

CAWST (Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology)

Charity: Water

The Clean Water We Take For Granted

When you go into your kitchen and draw yourself a glass of water, fill the kettle, or run a pot full of water to cook in, you're enjoying the thin end of a gigantic wedge created by millennia of investment and development.

The effort to collect, purify, and redistribute water used in our households involves a massive network of sewers, storm drains, pipes, sanitization plants and water treatment systems. Even in areas where there is no city water supply, we have the capability to drill private wells, or treat local rivers or streams, to give ourselves an easily accessible drinking water supply.

It's true that the progress we call "civilization" has its drawbacks. The developed world is shockingly wasteful. Yet we have so many advantages. Taking them for granted seems awful, but it probably never occurs to you that there is any other reality until you research what daily life is like in other parts of the world.

Water charities work to bring these benefits to the developing world, and to provide emergency drinking water to areas hit by natural disasters and wars, genocide and other situations influenced by mankind.

How Water Charities Are Making a Difference

  • Drilling wells: especially in rural areas, a huge amount of effort is involved in collecting and transporting water for everyday use, drinking, washing clothes, and personal sanitization. Local wells in areas where they can be drilled provide closer access to water for people who sometimes have to walk miles to their nearest water source.
  • Piping water to villages: once local wells are created, water charities work to pump it directly to villages, again reducing the distance the people need to travel to get their water.
  • Purifying local water supplies: where local supplies are contaminated, water charities install water purification systems, so local people can have clean, safe drinking water.

References

USA Today

New York Times

37 Signals

Ottawa Sun

Guardian UK


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