27 Facts About WaterAid

WaterAid is an international non-governmental organization, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene.

WaterAid was founded in 1981 by members of the UK water industry at the Thirsty Third World conference held in London.

WaterAid was formally established as a charity in the UK on 21 July 1981.

In 1993 WaterAid began work on their 1000th project, and agreed to fund the Hitosa Gravity Scheme in Ethiopia.

In 2003, WaterAid was named UK charity of the year at the Charity Times Awards.

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Also, in November 2006 WaterAid said that it was "Britain's most Admired Charity 2006", as voted by its peers in the voluntary sector.

WaterAid came top of the category followed by Save the Children and The Samaritans.

In February 2022, WaterAid WaterAid launched its first legacy campaign, "What Jack gave, " concentrating on will donations.

WaterAid has been associated with the Glastonbury Festival since 1994.

In 2012, WaterAid partnered with Waterlogic to help raise funds for the poorest communities in the world, to provide them with clean and sanitary water.

WaterAid is a founding member of the End Water Poverty campaign calling for water and sanitation for all.

WaterAid provided support in the following countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Myanmar, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Zambia.

WaterAid is working with the government to help extend access to safe water, sanitation and improved hygiene for rural communities in Monze District.

In light of this, WaterAid has since put up a tender request for an additional 32 boreholes to be drilled in Monze.

WaterAid is working in four wards of Western Milenge on Self Supply, and 16 masons have already been trained, having attended two separate one-month courses at Mansa Trades Training Institute.

WaterAid becomes a global federation, opening offices in North America and Australia.

WaterAid's vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation.

Since its presence in India from 1986, WaterAid India has been growing in its significance in providing assistance to the poor in both rural and urban areas.

Today, WaterAid covers over ten states, rendering their services to the communities that needed help most.

WaterAid has achieved many other significant milestones since its inception.

WaterAid India plays a vital role in advising Indian policy makers to include low-cost latrines into existing sanitation subsidies in 1999, after two years of advocacy.

Since 2003, WaterAid India has shifted its focus to the poorer states in northern India where local communities there require great assistance.

WaterAid is currently working with Bangladesh government to build the National Sanitation Strategy, which would help them to reach universal access to sanitation by 2015.

WaterAid encouraged local villagers to design and construct better latrine for themselves.

WaterAid introduced a programme called "Naming and Shaming", in which anyone caught defecating in the open would have their names taken down and made known to the whole community.

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WaterAid brought across the message of sanitation and hygienic defecation to the young by collaborating with a local music-theatre performance troupe who performed various educational for children.

Mr Mohammed Sabur, the Director of WaterAid Bangladesh said that since labour was abundant, companies were not afraid of labour shortage should their employees fall sick.