Water, Sanitation, Hygiene

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. However, many countries are challenged to provide these basic necessities to their populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related diseases. Resources available within this theme offer information on providing access to safe water and appropriate sanitation facilities, and introducing sound hygiene behaviors.

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Resources

Belstar Corp: Modernizing Ghana's water system

Publication date:
November 19, 2014
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Shortage of clean water and sanitation systems in Ghana is associated with multiple health problems as well as 20,000 deaths per year. Belstar Corp., a Florida company, and Deutsche Bank Trust Co., have been retained by the government of Ghana to implement a project to rehabilitate 38 eisting...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

International Rescue Committee, winner of OPIC's Impact Award for Development Impact

Publication date:
May 16, 2014
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
In Cote d'Ivoire, women draw water from a well built by International Rescure Committee, a nonprofit that works to respond to humanitarian crises around the world with a broad spectrum of services related to healthcare, improved living conditions, and social serices. OPIC provides political...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Securing water in a water scarce region

Publication date:
January 30, 2015
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
OPIC provided financing and political risk insurance to support the construction of a 202-mile water pipeline, built by Disi Water, in Jordan - one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. Completed in 2014, Disi Water is providing dependable water to the people of Amman and has capacity to...Read more

Conserving water during irrigation

Publication date:
August 24, 2012
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Wade Rain is using OPIC political risk insurance to support its operations in Mexico, a country with a dry climate that sources all water from ground wells. Wade Rain's Mexican subsidiary sells irrigation equipment - most of it manufactured in the U.S. - to small farms in central Mexico and...Read more

Support for small business in the Middle East

Publication date:
October 31, 2014
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
A water bottling company in Ramallah received financing through the nonprofit Middle East Investment Initiative, an OPIC partner that supports a small businesses in the Middle East. In the West Bank, where water is commonly stored in rooftop tanks that may become contanminated with microbes, demand...Read more

Bridging The Water Treatment Innovation Gap

Publication date:
May 12, 2015
The U.S. Water Partnership with support from Microvi Biotech Inc., Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) convened a webinar with various perspectives on the development and marketing of innovative water treatment technologies. The...Read more

Disability Inclusive WASH

Publication date:
December 4, 2014
World Vision
WaterAid America
The U.S. Water Partnership with support from World Vision, WaterAid, and Messiah College convened a webinar on disability inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)Read more

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