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Restoring a Lifeline: How Mercy Corps is Helping Jordan With Its Water Crisis
By Tracey Compton, Senior Media and Communications Coordinator, Mercy Corps
June 2023, Al Zubaireya, Jordan. Ahmad Al Habahbeh, 54, next to the greywater system at his home. Photo: Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps
The global climate crisis is shrinking water reserves and making access to clean water difficult. One in three people do not have access to safe drinking water, and two out of five lack basic hand-washing facilities. In addition, overarching water insecurity – too little, too much, or too dirty water – is increasing in scale, scope, and impact as a result of climate change. Yet, the path to clean water in climate-insecure contexts is achievable, as Mercy Corps and Xylem Watermark found in Jordan. The two organizations will share the blueprint to their success at next month’s World Water Week in Stockholm.
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Joint Interventions for Ethiopia’s Water Crisis: World Vision partners with the Rotary Foundation
By Aneesh Chatterjee
Community Water Point- Nono Chemeri -Abdi Boru Primary School, Yaya Gulele, Ethiopia. Photo: World Vision
Facing the fallout of ongoing armed conflict, impending natural disaster and subsequent resource scarcity is Ethiopia, ranking at 9 out of the top 10 most at-risk countries for humanitarian emergencies on the Independent Rescue Committee’s 2024 Emergency Watchlist. From a three-year drought to overbearing floods in vulnerable regions, rampant food and water insecurity is projected to be on the rise, driven by military tensions and an influx of displaced persons from neighboring states. In Ethiopia, and across Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Eretria, an estimated 20 million people are predicted to be in dire need of food and water assistance by UNICEF.
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Ibrahim Ogaram, Food Security and Nutrition Officer, The Hunger Project Uganda
Ibrahim Ogaram at one of the THP constructed community wells. Photo: THP
The Hunger Project (THP), a GlobalWA member since 2018, was founded in 1977 with the goal of ending world hunger. They have ongoing programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America aimed at mobilizing rural grassroots communities to achieve sustainable progress in health, education, nutrition, and family income. WASH is one of those activities and it is one of the foundations for community health.