“Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.”Goal #6 of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development is one that WaterStep has been working towards for 20 years and will continue to work for until the day that every person has access to safe water. The Global Goals are a list of 17 … Read more
Happy Give Local Louisville day! If you have ever considered donating to safe water projects, today is a great day to start. We are excited to join with other nonprofits around the city as Louisvillians shows how compassionate they are. Today, October 1st, when you give to WaterStep, your donations could be multiplied by a local … Read more
WaterStep first began work in Costa Rica in 2001. For 14 years, WaterStep has worked primarily in the central highlands and the Pacific coast, focusing in the provinces of Guanacaste, Cartago, Heredia and San Jose. Project locations have included churches, schools, feeding centers, or other community centers. 2015 has been no different. So far this … Read more
WaterStep Staff Member Doug Lark writes about his experience on a recent trip to Uganda.Down a dusty dirt road several miles from the nearest paved highway is the rural village of Kabowa, Uganda (GPS 0 degrees, 32 minutes, 46 seconds N, 31 degrees, 16 minutes, 31 seconds E). Like many rural villages in Uganda, safe … Read more
Ravi Jain, founder of ShantiSeva, and his team installed a WaterStep M-100 water purifier in Kishoni village near Shujalpur, India where up to 1,200 people in the community can now access safe water.Ravi is working to bring sustainable safe water solutions to this community and others in India. We wrote about Ravi’s earlier work with … Read more
When earthquakes struck Nepal last month, WaterStep immediately began planning our response. We are ready to send 100 chlorine generators with five staff members and volunteers to Nepal to train locals and provide the technology they need to access safe water.What impact can 100 purifiers have?We saw in the Philippines in 2013 that by training … Read more
Our work in Kaabowa Village is just beginning. Our partners at the Rural Health Care Foundation sent us photos of their Phase One implementation, and we are encouraged and inspired by their results. Because of your support through financial giving and shoe donations, Phase One has been completed, and we have dug a new well … Read more
By now, I hope you’ve heard about our community project in Kaabowa Village, Uganda. During our work here, we will address all of the water needs of the entire community.Like we’ve outlined on our project page, the first phase of this project will focus on digging a well to provide safe water in a central … Read more
“Kathmandu is getting back to normal now, but water is not.” That’s what N.D. Lama told me when I spoke with him yesterday about the current situation in Nepal, where a 7.8 earthquake hit the central region of the country late last month. N.D., a seminary student from Nepal, is working to bring services to … Read more
The community model is WaterStep’s approach to providing safe water to a community for a lifetime. The community model addresses the water needs one individual, one family, one community at a time.This year, we are looking to Kaabowa Village in Uganda. Dr. Ssenoga reached out to us to explain their need for safe water, and … Read more
