US site
Water | Sanitation | Hygiene | Sitemap | Newsroom | FAQs
 
America
About us

Donate now

Give the gift of life

Join our
e-community

for regular news on WaterAid's work.

 
Home \ About us \ Newsroom \ WaterAid in the news
  Print this page Font size 

WaterAid in the news

Highlights of our media coverage:

August 2012

Urban Water and Sanitation Solutions

David Winder of WaterAid discusses the challenges of ensuring residents in low-income urban areas across the developing world have access to safe water and sanitation.

  Published by: The Huffington Post

July 2012

One Step Closer to a World Where the Poor Have Safe Water

David Winder of WaterAid applauds the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for showing great political and moral leadership by passing the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2011 (S. 641). In moving this vital piece of legislation forward, the committee has prioritized creating a world in which all can live with dignity and in healthier and safer surroundings.

  Published by: The Huffington Post

June 2012

Our Steadfast Resolve to Halt Needless Child Deaths

David Winder, Barbara Frost, Adam Laidlaw and Cecilia Chatterjee-Martensen of WaterAid write about how 700,000 children's lives could be saved over the next year by doing something as simple as providing clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene promotion.

  Published by: The Huffington Post

May 2012

Dhaka faces up to its watery paradox

Life in low-lying Dhaka can be a paradox. Flood waters rise up to a meter in the monsoon months, but there is an ongoing shortage of clean drinking water.

The Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is working with WaterAid in some of the country’s biggest and most unsanitary slums to improve access to safe, legal drinking water connections, and build toilet units.

  Published by: CNN

February 2012

Dirty little secret: the loo that saves lives in Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Laureate, President of the Republic of Liberia and WaterAid’s goodwill ambassador for water and sanitation in Africa, was interviewed by Rose George about how sanitation programs such as WaterAid's are helping to rebuild Liberia.

  Published by: The Guardian

October 2011

With 7 Billion People, World Has a Poop Problem

WaterAid's Dan Yeo talked to Stephanie Pappas about why sanitation is not given the priority it so urgently needs in international development.

  Published by: Live Science

March 2011

PBS Newshour report on Dhaka slums

In a report aired on World Water Day (March 22, 2011) PBS Newshour special correspondent Steve Sapienza highlighted the worsening struggle to find clean drinking water in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city, and the devastating impact on public health.

Mr Sapienza interviewed Dr. Khairul Islam, WaterAid's Country Representative in Bangladesh, and Dr. Dibalok Singha, the Executive Director of WaterAid's local partner DSK, about an innovative approach for helping slum dwellers to set up and manage their own communal water points.

Broadcast by: PBS Newshour

April 2010

The Burden of Thirst

The Burden of Thirst feature by  in National Geographic magazine's April 2010 special water issue examines water scarcity in East Africa, and covers WaterAid's program in Ethiopia.

Published by: National Geographic


March 2010

In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water

Fred de Sam Lazaro reported on WaterAid's work to help local communities in Ethiopia to gain access to safe water.

Broadcast by: PBS Newshour


Back to top

WaterAid America Inc., 315 Madison Avenue, Suite 2301, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel: (212) 683 - 0430
www.facebook.com/wateraidamerica www.twitter.com/wateraidamerica
© WaterAid America, Inc. All rights reserved.
WaterAid America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN/tax ID number: 30-018-1674)