Below are charitable organizations dedicated to helping improve access to clean,fresh water. If you would like to help in this important cause, please contact one of the organizations below. If you have an organization that is not on this list, please contact us at info@h2bid.com and tell us about your organization. There is no fee to list your organization. We want to help spread the word and hopefully increase the support for all worthwhile water charities.
WaterAid
www.wateraid.org
WaterAid is an international non governmental organization. The organization’s mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities
Water for People
www.waterforpeople.org
Water for People has programs to improve drinking water in developing countries. Water For People works to build a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.
Water Advocates
www.wateradvocates.org
Water Advocates promotes water availability, sanitation, and hygiene. The organization’s purpose is advocacy, not implementation of projects. Water Advocates works with all sectors of American society to increase public and private-citizen funding for effective water, sanitation and hygiene projects and initiatives internationally, particularly those characterized by strong community involvement.
Population Services International
www.psi.org
PSI is a global health organization with programs targeting malaria and other waterborne diseases.
Global Water Challenge
www.globalwaterchallenge.org
Global Water Challenge is a coalition of organizations working for universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Water Charity
www.watercharity.org
Water Charity implements practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation, and meaningful health education to those in need.
Charity: Water
www.charitywater.org
Charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Water Life
www.waterlife.org/
Helping disadvantaged communities to own, create and maintain their sustainable water and sanitation solutions
Water for Life
www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/
Promoting efforts to fulfill international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015 – a decade of action.
Water 1st
www.water1st.org/
Serving families in the poorest communities in the world as they implement community-managed projects that integrate water supply, sanitation, and health education.
Blue Planet Run
www.blueplanetrun.org
Bringing the global community together to provide safe drinking water to the billion people around the world in need. Goal: To provide safe drinking water to 200 million people by 2027.
Waterlines
waterlines.org
Waterlines has provided funding and/or technical expertise for drinking-water projects in over 200 communities in twelve countries (Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Philippines, India, Honduras, Ethiopia and Kenya). Waterlines works in small villages (usually with populations between 200 and 2,000 people), where existing water sources are contaminated or distant.
Water Partners International
www.water.org
WaterPartners International is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed exclusively to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. Since its inception in 1990, WaterPartners has transformed thousands of lives with access to safe water and sanitation in eight countries – Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, India, Kenya, and the Philippines.
Waterkeeper Alliance
www.waterkeeper.org
Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance connects and supports local Waterkeeper programs to provide a voice for waterways and their communities worldwide. To champion clean water and strong communities, Waterkeeper Alliance:
1. Supports and empowers member Waterkeeper organizations to protect communities, ecosystems and water quality;
2. Promotes the Waterkeeper model for watershed protection worldwide; and
3. Advocates for issues common to Waterkeeper programs.
Each Waterkeeper program reflects the needs of the waterbody and community it represents. The common thread for each Waterkeeper program is a full-time person who serves as the Waterkeeper, the public advocate for that body of water.
H2O Africa
www.h2oafrica.org
H2O Africa is the clean water initiative that is part of the Running the Sahara expedition and film project, now chronicled on a special DVD release.
Co-founded by actor Matt Damon, H2O Africa is gathering support for clean water programs in critical areas, including communities along the Running the Sahara route. Together, we will leave a legacy of better lives and better communities in Africa.
Play Pumps International
www.playpumps.org
…will carry out our mission by installing 4,000 PlayPump® water systems in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa by 2010, bringing the benefits of clean water to up to 10 million people. More than 1000 PlayPump systems have already been donated to communities in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zambia.
Agua Para la Vida
www.wateraid.org/
WaterAid is an international charity. Our mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. We aim to help one million people gain access to water and one million gain access to sanitation every year.
Water is Life/Haitian Initiative
www.rethinkingwater.com/foundationARN.htm
In 2008, The ARN Foundation of Haiti proposed the ‘water is life’ program in support of GE’s HeathyImagination initiative; to provide potable water for 500,000 people in Haiti, annually. The project proposes to include 100 Innovative Water Technologies solar Sunspring water purifications units that will be located at primarily locations throughout Haiti. Since the Sunspring is a ‘stand alone’ potable water unit, not only will it supply 5,000 gallons of potable water daily for the needy to drink but will also provide sanitary conditions for medical staff in relief areas. These medical facilities are the first stage providers during emergency situations, and allow for secure methods for disbursing clean water.