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Safe Water Network

<p>Nearly a billion people live without access to clean drinking water, making this issue one of the world’s most catastrophic — and preventable — public health concerns.</p><p>The impact of unsafe water is devastating — not only for individuals, but for families, communities, economies, countries, and the world. Lives are cut short, disease is rampant, opportunities are lost, and hundreds of thousands of people are condemned to mere “survival.”</p><p>The dehumanizing cycle of poverty that results in poor health, a lack of education, and wide-spread deprivation, vulnerability, and powerlessness cannot be broken without access to basic human needs, of which perhaps the most important is safe drinking water.</p><p>In Ghana, SWN and Water Health International have partnered to demonstrate the potential of community-based Water Health Centres.</p><p>At SWN’s WaterHealth Centre in Poukase, Ghana, women gather safe drinking water for their families.</p><p>WaterHealth Centres provide safe water to impoverished communities that are impacted by waterborne diseases and have no other access to affordable and portable drinking water.</p><p>The arrival of safe drinking water will radically improve the course of these children’s lives.</p><p>Through its extended network of international partnerships, Safe Water Network goes beyond the delivery of safe water systems to educate local communities about the critical role of hygiene and sanitation in maintaining good health.</p><p>In India, Safe Water Network is working with partners to constuct and restore several hundred rainwater cisterns to 40 villages to deliver safe drinking water to an estimated 10,000 people in the coming year.</p><p>With its Rajasthan-based partners, SWN is bringing measurable improvements to the age-old practice of rainwater harvesting by introducing new approaches to cistern design, water quality, and funding models.</p>

Nearly a billion people live without access to clean drinking water, making this issue one of the world’s most catastrophic — and preventable — public health concerns.

 

“As a founder of Safe Water Network, Paul Newman helped inspire a collective effort to develop new approaches to delivering safe water to the world’s poor. The scale and complexity of this problem requires a sustained and collaborative effort among innovative minds, companies, and organizations around the world. We thank Newman’s Own Foundation for their generous support and are confident that together we can impact lasting positive change in the lives of many of the nearly one billion people who suffer daily from a lack of safe drinking water.”

— Kurt Soderlund, CEO, Safe Water Network

About Safe Water Network

Safe Water Network’s mission is to bring together most innovative minds, companies, and organizations in a collaborative and strategic network of partnerships to help solve the world’s most pressing humanitarian concern: Nearly a billion people in the developing world live without access to safe, affordable drinking water.

www.safewaternetwork.org

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