CARE: This humanitarian organization helps whole families and entire communities escape poverty by protecting and increasing access to clean water resources.
Charity: Water: Charity: Water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Imagine H2O, a national non-profit, inspires and empowers people to solve water problems. They offer prize competitions and incubation and mentoring support to help innovators and entrepreneurs turn great ideas into real-world solutions that ensure available clean water and sanitation.
KickStart: A non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. The greatest impact comes from their manual irrigation pumps.
Population Services International (PSI) addresses the health of poor and vulnerable people in the developing world, via social marketing of health products, services and communications. PSI combats diarrheal disease by educating individuals about purifying drinking water in the home, practicing improved hygiene and sanitation, and offering treatment because diarrhea prevention is much better than treatment with oral rehydration salts.
Project WET: Its mission is to reach children, parents, educators, and communities of the world with water education via publications, training workshops, global networking and community events.
Save the Children: From emergency relief to long-term development, Save the Children helps children to achieve a happy, healthy and secure childhood.
Start with Water: Run by Rotary International’s Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG), this program’s 1000 projects in 100 countries involve 7,000 Rotary clubs around the globe. A 2010 Technology Entertainment and Design (TEDx) talk titled Why? explains how WASRAG is helping the UN MDG reduce by one-half the people with insufficient safe water and sanitation.
Water.org: This project draws attention to unsafe and inadequate water supplies and raises funds to help fight lack of accessible, safe water supplies in developing countries.
Water Aid: Its mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
Water for People helps communities in developing countries develop access to locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education programs.
Wherever the Need: This group promotes dry, cheap eco-san toilets that separate urine from feces. The urine is usable in agriculture immediately and the feces after composting – all without chemicals.
WorldHealth International: Its mission is to provide sustainable access to clean, safe water to all, including the poorest communities.
The WaterLife Foundation: This US-based nonprofit helps people achieve adequate supplies of potable water, leading to better health and higher standards of living.
Young Water Action Team: YWAT’s global network of young professionals increase awareness and participation of young people to water-related issues via workshops, web sites and a global database of youth-led water initiatives.