Clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene improve economic opportunities for women by:

✅ Reducing unpaid care work
✅ Improving access to education
✅ Improving health
✅ Reducing violence against women and girls

Learn more: brnw.ch/21wJBHK

Why do millions of people lack access to safe #water ?

As Hannah CrichtonSmith writes in WaterAid Global, political will and more investment around #ClimateChange will go a long way to remove the obstacles.

➡️ Full article here: shorturl.at/hsw49#

Why doesn't everyone have access to clean water yet?

👉 Read the blog: brnw.ch/21wJx0E

Midwives like Jalia from Uganda need clean water to keep mothers, babies and themselves safe.

Yet more than one in five health centres don't have clean water.

We won't stop until everyone, everywhere, has access to this essential.

#InternationalDayOfTheMidwife

WaterAid hails new G7 water coalition as having groundbreaking potential, but it must represent the needs of the most vulnerable | WaterAid Global

In response to the new G7 water coalition Sunny Singh, WaterAid’s senior multilateral affairs adviser comments⬇️
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Every two seconds, a woman gives birth in a health centre without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. It's unacceptable that, in 2024, mums and babies are still at risk, because health centres lack the very basics, like clean water.

#CleanWaterForAll #Charity

Yesterday G7 countries founded the first G7 coalition dedicated to working on water 💧

WaterAid Global has hailed it as having 'groundbreaking potential', but it must represent the needs of the most vulnerable. See our full response below ⬇️

wateraid.org/uk/media/Water…

As we commemorate Labour Day, let's pledge to ensure that every worker has access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene for a healthier and more productive workforce.

#WaterAidPakistan #LabourDay #WASH
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In many communities, women walk miles just to access clean water. Every step they take emphasizes the need for world leaders to prioritize providing access to WASH services at all times.

#WaterAidWestAfrica

Access to clean, safe water improves health and wellbeing.

Thanks to the Strengthening Water and Sanitation Delivery project funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dakwa community, Abuja, 22-year-old Abban no longer has to depend on vendors for water.

At least half of these infections could be prevented by improving access to clean water, toilets and hygiene in health centres.

👉 Read our research for more: brnw.ch/21wJhvj

Why we must respect the goals we promised to achieve | Nature Water

WaterAid's ambassador and former UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson discusses his work on #WASH with WaterAid in Nature Water⬇️
nature.com/articles/s4422…

We break it down: buff.ly/3VzZmNj

Health centres without clean water, toilets and hygiene have devastating consequences.

Explore the impacts of healthcare-acquired infections on seven countries in #Africa in our latest research.

👉 brnw.ch/21wJ8dw

📢 Calling all researchers!
📝 Submit your abstract for the 4th Sanitation Workers Research Awards at the 2024 UNC Water & Health Conference
#health , #safety , and #dignity of #sanitationworkers
📅Deadline: May 3, 2024
👉 Application details: t.ly/Zxsru
#WASHmatters

🏥 1 in 5 healthcare facilities don't have a basic water service.
❌ 3.85 billion people use a facility without basic hygiene.

This leaves patients & staff vulnerable to healthcare-acquired infections.

⬇️ Read our recent research to learn more:

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Contaminated water sources. Damaged infrastructure. Loss of people's lives.

These are just some of the ways #ClimateChange is causing loss and damage in communities.

👉 Learn more in our blog: brnw.ch/21wJ3wj

Heat-related deaths rise by 30% in Europe due to extreme weather, according to the 2023 European #StateoftheClimate report.

Patience Mukuyu, WaterAid Global's climate policy analyst has responded, saying she hopes this report acts as a wake up call to governments.

See full response⬇️

Access to climate-resilient WASH facilities helps build communities' resilience to extreme weather events.

This is why we are working in villages, healthcare centres and schools to improve access to WASH services in District Badin, Sindh province.

#WaterAidPakistan #Badin #WASH

‘A deadly heatwave in West Africa was 'impossible' without human-induced climate change’, scientists say – additional heat that has been described as “the difference between life and death for many people.' BBC News (World) 🧵
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