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Clean water, clean hands, clean toilets, and menstrual health support for kids in urban poverty — co-developed with local governments.

Splash is at the forefront of a growing movement to ensure that children in urban poverty have the resources they need to thrive and realize their full potential. We design child-focused water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and menstrual health solutions with governments in some of the world’s biggest cities. Splash is transforming schools — and we’re just getting started. Help us make clean water t

he first step toward brighter futures for millions more kids.
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09/02/2026

What an incredible week of conversations, connections, and collaboration at World Water Week.

At our booth, Martin Carter and Lauren Rymer had the opportunity to meet so many inspiring people from across the water and sanitation sector while sharing some of Splash’s newest innovations, including our Durable Tap and handwashing and drinking stations. Each was designed to help WASH infrastructure withstand heavy daily use and keep working in schools over time.

Just before the conference opened, Martin presented the Durable Tap Project at the 36th Sustainable Sanitation Alliance Meeting. Throughout World Water Week, Chris Nicoletti represented Splash International in four sessions focused on sustaining public drinking water services through results-based funding, moving from partnership to government ownership, integrating menstrual health into WASH policy, and measuring whether school WASH services truly meet children’s rights and needs. In each conversation, Chris shared lessons from Splash’s experience delivering WASH at scale in schools.

We also loved connecting with colleagues and partners at events throughout Stockholm, including Coffee Beans and Clean Water, hosted by our partners Project Waterfall and Millennium Water Alliance, and the Menstruation Matters Roundtable hosted by our partner WASH United.

We came home energized by the ideas, new relationships, and opportunities to keep working together. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, joined a session, shared your perspective, or helped make World Water Week such a meaningful gathering.

08/17/2026

The Africa Water & Sanitation Systems Leadership Symposium opens today in Kigali, Rwanda, bringing together leaders from across Africa to strengthen water and sanitation systems.

Representing Splash are Baraki Zessalasie Birru, Country Director, Ethiopia, Carole Wanjau, Executive Director, Splash Africa, Katrina Straker, Chief Development Officer, and Mwansa Njelesani-Kaira, Country Director, Zambia.

As leaders discuss investment, regulation, and stronger systems, Splash is bringing the perspective of the children who rely on those systems every day.

Public schools are essential parts of a city's water system. When schools have reliable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health services, students are healthier, attend school more consistently, and have a better opportunity to learn.

Through Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), Splash partners with governments to help make every public-school part of a stronger, more sustainable citywide system.

Strong systems should reach every child, every school, every day.

08/12/2026

Next week, leaders from across Africa will gather in Kigali for the Africa Water & Sanitation Systems Leadership Symposium to discuss how stronger leadership, financing, and institutions can build more sustainable water and sanitation systems.

Splash will be there with Baraki Zessalasie Birru, Carole Wanjau, Katrina Straker, and Mwansa Njelesani-Kaira.

One number we'll be thinking about is this:

About $38 per school per year keeps a school's water, sanitation, and hygiene system running in Kolkata after it has been handed over to local government. Today, 80% of those schools fund those recurring costs themselves.

Sustainable systems depend on more than infrastructure. They depend on clear responsibilities, predictable funding, and local ownership.

Through Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), Splash partners with governments to help build systems that continue serving children long after implementation is complete.

08/06/2026

Building a water system is the easy part. Keeping it working is the test.

By mid-2025, 80 percent of Splash schools in Kolkata were on a maintenance contract that keeps taps running, toilets usable, and stations stocked.

Maintenance is why the systems last.

Read more: Splash infrastructure study, Kolkata. Splash.org/impact

08/05/2026

Desta's name means "joy" in Amharic, and the name fits.

At her school in Ethiopia, the 13-year-old loves science, playing with her classmates, and making her friends laugh. She wants to become a scientist and solve problems through research.

Desta is already putting that curiosity to work. As a member of her school's Hygiene Club, she turns lessons about clean water and handwashing into songs, dramas, and poems that other students remember long after the lesson ends.

She brings joy to the work, and she is proud to help make her school healthier.

Read more of her story at: https://splash.org/impact/stories/desta

07/30/2026

We say yes to Period Education for girls, boys, and caregivers.

At Splash, we have learned that supporting girls through menstruation requires more than reaching girls alone. Girls told us they wanted boys to better understand menstruation. Teachers and caregivers wanted practical tools to guide conversations about puberty. Boys had questions too, but were rarely included.

Building on the foundation of WASH United Period Education Guides, Splash and partners developed companion Guides for boys and caregivers. Together, these three resources help create the supportive environments young people need to navigate puberty and menstruation with knowledge and confidence.

This milestone reflects years of collaboration, learning, and shared commitment. We are proud to have contributed alongside WASH United and many other partners working to make Period Education more accurate, inclusive, and accessible.

Explore all three Guides at https://yes-period.org/.

07/24/2026

A complete school WASH program should include menstrual health from the start.

Through Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), Splash integrates safe water,
private and usable toilets, soap and handwashing, hygiene education, behavior change, menstrual health education, supportive school routines, and long-term maintenance.

This is WASH-M: water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health working as one connected system.

Private facilities and reliable water support dignity. Education replaces misinformation and stigma with knowledge and confidence. Maintenance helps keep facilities usable throughout the school year.

By building menstrual health into the complete WASH model, schools are better equipped to support girls’ health, participation, and learning.

Learn more at https://splash.org/our-work/project-wise

07/23/2026

People Behind the Work.

Meet Mwansa Njelesani-Kaira, our Country Director in Zambia.

Her "why" goes back to age ten — a day spent with children at a refugee camp in Sierra Leone. "What stayed with me was the joy of that day despite the circumstances."

Years later, that joy still drives the work: building the systems that bring children dignity, care, and safe WASH services at school. As she puts it: "That joy matters. And so does the work of building the systems that help it last."

Grateful to have you leading the way, Mwansa.

07/22/2026

When something works, it should be shared.

Six years of menstrual health programming across more than 500 schools in Addis Ababa helped more girls manage their periods confidently, miss fewer days of school, and challenge harmful myths.

Splash is committed to making those lessons useful beyond the schools where the work began.

Together with WASH United, Splash helped create yes.period, a free digital resource that gives schools, governments, and organizations access to proven menstrual health tools they can use and adapt.

Read “The Proof Is in the Presence” to see what worked and how Splash is helping make those lessons available to others.

https://splash.org/blog/the-proof-is-in-the-presence

07/18/2026

We hear the word "sustainability" a lot. But what does it actually mean?

In the WASH sector, it can be a box to check or a slide in a deck. At Splash, it's the design brief from day one: every system we build is designed for us to leave.

That means local ownership, trained operators, maintenance plans, and parts on hand, so a school system keeps working long after we've moved on. It means asking, before a single tap is installed, who will run this in year five?

Across nearly two decades, we've done exactly that in eight countries and handed six off to local ownership. Leaving well is the whole point.

It's how Phase I was built, and how Phase II is being built in Zambia now.

Learn about the model at Splash.org

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