Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation

More than one billion people worldwide can’t get the safe, clean water they need. Lack of access to adequate water supplies means people’s lives are at risk. Drinking, washing, cooking, growing crops and rearing livestock all require water.

Water and sanitation solutions

Blog - latest from our water and sanitation projects

Solar powered water pump installed in Kenya

Over the weekend Practical Action installed a solar powered water pump in Northern Kenya (Click h...
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Dying for a drink in Turkana, Kenya

I’m writing from Practical Action’s office in Lodwar, Turkana having returned from an intense thr...
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Water is life, only if it’s safe!

The recent (2011) census in Nepal revealed that 82.78% of people have access to improved drinking...
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I later described it as silly

But what I really meant was unassuming, simple yet effective. In Gularia, Nepal we’ve been wor...
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Building relationships - the key to improved services

For the residents of Sakubva in Mutare, living with heaps of uncollected waste at illegal dumping...
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Shit Matters at Christmas

What is the weirdest Christmas present you could give any one? For me the Shit Box, cardboard cra...
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WEDC International Conference 1-5 July 2013, Nakuru, Kenya

Practical Action is providing support to this conference, which will be looking at delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services in an uncertain environment.

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