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
Four ways OPIC projects support access to water around the world
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August 27, 2015Overseas Private Investment Corporation
This blog shows four ways OPIC projects are increasing access to water in developing countries. Projects include: desalination, irrigation, sanitation, and support for small business water bottlers.Read more
Water for agriculture: How one innovative project is helping African farmers grow more food
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March 20, 2015Overseas Private Investment Corporation
This blog highlights OPIC partner Pamiga Finance S.A., an investment company developed to bring financial resources to rural microfinance institutions in Africa. One key aim of the project was to provide dedicated loans to African farmers so they could invest in micro-irrigation systems and improve...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Spotlight: Hamma Desalination Plant provides clean drinking water for hundreds of thousands of Algerian families.
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January 30, 2014Overseas Private Investment Corporation
With Algeria's capital city of Algiers suffering from a severe shortage of clean drinking water, resulting in strict rationing, stockpiling, as well as the consumption of dirty water by households and farms, the solution showed a requirement in a large investment in infrastructure. The...Read more
Belstar Corp: Modernizing Ghana's water system
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November 19, 2014Overseas 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
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Sub-Saharan AfricaInternational Rescue Committee, winner of OPIC's Impact Award for Development Impact
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May 16, 2014Overseas 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
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Sub-Saharan AfricaDesalination, irrigation, sanitation, and more: how OPIC supports access to clean water in the developing world
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March 22, 2016Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Clean water is essential to life and also to address many of the world's biggest development challenges from poverty to malnutrition. OPIC has long supported access to clean water through a variety of projects from major infrastructure construction to small-scale microfinance lending. OPIC...Read more
Securing water in a water scarce region
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January 30, 2015Overseas 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
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August 24, 2012Overseas 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
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October 31, 2014Overseas 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
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