Water For Empowerment

03/22/2021

HAPPY WORLD WATER DAY!

Last year, your contributions helped start a new jobs training program in Nicaragua for women plumbers! Now you can support the same program in Bilwi or one like it in Tipitapa ❤️💧

Please help us in making a change:
https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1330007

Sponsorship Levels:

$600 in Tipitapa will pay for one year of hygiene education for a community + job training + plumbing tools + water filtration units.
$1000 in Tipitapa will pay for community education + plumber’s training + tools + supplies for plumber’s own home installation of clean water and sanitation for her family.
$1200 in Bilwi will pay for plumbers’ training for 10 women leaving prison
$1200 in Bilwi will pay for plumber’s training + tools + supplies for plumber’s own home installation of clean water and sanitation for her family.

03/11/2021

Globally, one in nine people lack access to clean water and its disproportionally affecting woman and young girls.

How the global water crisis disproportionately impacts women and girls, in pictures

03/09/2021

With over 1 billon people lacking access to safe water, it's becoming increasingly harder for women to provide clean and healthy resources to their families.

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For women around the world, the struggle to gather water for their families is a personal, everyday battle. They are responsible for finding a resource their...

03/03/2021

Water pollution, water scarcity, water-related disasters and damage to healthy freshwater ecosystems have major impacts on a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, water, sanitation, food, a healthy environment, an adequate standard of living, development, culture, and the rights of the child

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GENEVA (3 March 2021) – A UN human rights expert today called for a robust and rapid global response to the world’s worsening water crisis, saying that climate change had become a “risk multiplier” - exacerbating pollution, scarcity and ...

03/02/2021

Simply amazing! After facing a water crisis in 2018, Babita Rajput dug up a canal and routed rainwater into the lake along with nearly 250 women in Agroutha, Madhya Pradesh.

After facing a water crisis in 2018, Babita Rajput dug up a canal and routed rainwater into the lake along with nearly 250 women in Agroutha.

02/23/2021

Having more women at the table would drive innovation and, importantly, increase sensitivity to community needs, as well as help the energy and utility companies better prepare for various scenarios.

Why More Women In Texas Utilities Would Have Prevented The Power And Water Crisis. Texas leadership is overwhelmingly white male. Remember the IMF analysis that the 2008 financial crisis was due to “groupthink”? It sounds like the Texas power (and water) crisis is due to groupthink.

02/19/2021

The below average rainfall forecasted for early 2021 due to La Niña are expected to drive food insecurity, increase water scarcity and give rise to disease outbreaks.

COVID-19 and slow recovery from recent floods are causing humanitarian crisis in Kenya, says a report.

02/19/2021

With the vision of providing people with a creative solutions to have clean, safe & potable water without supply chain logistics costs, Maithri Aquatech Pvt Ltd., a Hyderabad-based start-up, got into the optimization of generating water from atmospheric humidity.

Maithri Aquatech provides an alternative & sustainable way to avert India's water crisis by converting atmospheric humidity into clean, drinkable water.

02/17/2021

Water scarcity is among the top five global risks affecting people’s well being. However, technology is looking to change that! From Earth’s seabed to its upper atmosphere, we have a variety of water resources that can be tapped.

Water is crucial for sustainable development. Using unconventional resources, such as catching fog and iceberg harvesting, can help ensure supply.