WATERisLIFE STANDS WITH WASH.

When it comes to the resolving the World Water Crisis there’s one elite approach: WASH. Implemented by UNICEF, the term WASH stands for a set of three interrelated initiatives: 

• Water: Helping communities source accessible and safe drinking water.
• Sanitation: Working with human waste processes and basic access to proper toilets. Sanitation ensures an end to “open defecation” and harmful contact between people and waste.
• Hygiene: In order to prevent the spread of disease, hygiene teaches basic but necessary self-care education like hand-washing.

The most important tenet of WASH is that you can’t have one component without the other two. For example, if there aren’t proper toilets and waste procedures (Sanitation), there’s a good chance public water sources (Water) will be contaminated. In order for a community to solve their water crisis, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene must be equally present. 

WATERisLIFE uses WASH as a foundation for each of our projects. Check out what we’re doing to tackle Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene. 

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