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Category Archives: Water & Sanitation
A Refreshing Twist on WASH Logistics
The World’s First DIY Solar Water Pump is… Free?

Over 800 million people worldwide don’t have access to clean water, and that number is projected to reach at least 1.8 billion over the next decade.[1] This problem struck a chord with Austrian well-maker turned entrepreneur Dietmar Stuck. His patented solar water pump technology aims to address this problem.
The All-in-One Menstrual Hygiene Kit
The Women WASH Leaders of Ethiopia’s Biogas Café Cooperatives
Turning the Desert Green
Clay Pot Water Filters: Easy to Use and Cheap to Produce

Potters For Peace, established in Nicaragua in 1986, is a non-profit based in the United States, that works with subsistence potters in Central America to establish factories that produce low-cost ceramic water filters. PFP does not manufacture the filters or operate the facilities where the filters are made, but instead assists their local partners to set up these facilities …
3D printing helps boost WASH components of humanitarian responses

3D printing (also called additive manufacturing) has been around for a number of years, but is only recently being utilized for new, innovative projects. From small trinkets to icing on cookies, all the way to construction materials and artificial limbs for amputees, 3D printing can be used in a number of different settings to create unique objects. Because of this success, 3D printing is now being seen as a useful addition to humanitarian responses. It has burst onto the humanitarian scene, helping people in a number of new, innovative ways.