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Nations Around The World Are Celebrating World Water Day Today!

Let’s leave no one behind in 2019 and donate to reputable charities with practical solutions. You can help increase safe sources of water for drinking, food prep, sanitation and personal hygiene. Save a life today and celebrate!

Help celebrate World Water Day by supporting solutions for a water crisis that effects billions of people worldwide. The right to water entitles everyone, without discrimination, to sufficient, safe, accessible and affordable water. See below for recommended water charities.

Select a water charity that best meets your vision for solutions to the world water crisis. 

Water For Empowerment
(We apologize for the inconvenience, but we’re only able to accept donations through PayPal at the moment).

Our mission is to empower women and girls to build healthy lives through clean water initiatives. Currently, we are supporting a new vocational training program through WaterAid that helps single mothers and women from a battered women’s shelter to become plumbers. This program creates new opportunities for young women to maintain and repair household toilets and sinks in the Bilwi region of Nicaragua.

Our model for accomplishing sustainability is based on a B2B relationship with other charitable organizations— NGO to NGO. We support clean water initiatives with stakeholders in leadership positions that need technical or fundraising support.


Wateraid America (Partnership with Wateraid Nicaragua)
WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities. They work with partners and influence decision-makers to maximize our impact.

 

Water For People
Water For People promotes the development of high quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.

 

Charity: Water
Charity: water brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. They work with local experts and community members to find the best sustainable solution in each location. With every water point they fund, their partners coordinate sanitation and hygiene training, and establish a local Water Committee to help keep water flowing for years to come.

 

Water.org
Water.org believes water is the way. To break the cycle of poverty. To protect and save lives. To make a bright future possible for all.

Access to safe water can protect and save lives, just because it’s there. Access to safe water has the power to turn time spent into time saved, when it’s close and not hours away. Access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlocking education, economic prosperity, and improved health.

Every human being deserves to define their own future, and water makes that possible. They’ve transformed more than 17 million lives with access to safe water and sanitation, and together we can reach even more people.

 

UNICEF
UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) team works in over 100 countries worldwide to improve water and sanitation services, as well as basic hygiene practices. Last year, UNICEF’s efforts provided nearly 14 million people with clean water and over 11 million with basic toilets.

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World Water Day Celebration at EnviroForensics HQ in Indianapolis Brings Local Community into a Global Event on March 22, 2018

World Water Day Celebration at EnviroForensics HQ in Indianapolis
Brings Local Community into a Global Event on March 22, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 1, 2018

Local Environmental Engineering Firm Partners with Local Charity
To Raise Money for Micro-enterprise Program in Nicaragua
Training Young Women in Clean Water Initiatives

Water for Empowerment, an Indianapolis charity focused on clean water and sanitation, is celebrating World Water Day on March 22 with both an online fundraising campaign and a reception hosted by EnviroForensics in the Central Business District, downtown. In the past two years, the local environmental consulting firm has partnered with Water for Empowerment to raise more than $60,000 for a micro-enterprises project in the poorest region of Nicaragua. In the Bilwi region of that country, 800,000 people live without access to clean water while two million live without adequate sanitation. A micro-enterprises program, operated by WaterAid America, addresses the crisis by training young women in hygiene education and clean water technologies.

Environmental engineers and scientists at EnviroForensics share technical expertise with WaterAid personnel in Nicaragua while the charity, Water for Empowerment, raises money for jobs training in the construction of water wells, water filtration systems, rain catchment tanks, and sanitary latrines. The mission of Water for Empowerment is to empower women and girls to build healthy lives through clean water initiatives. During the month of March, the charity and the environmental firm hope to raise $15,000 toward a $30,000 goal for the micro-enterprises program. Approximately forty young women, often at risk of being trafficked into sexual slavery due to poverty, receive training as hygiene educators and construction managers. Education about the value of clean water and sanitation precedes any construction activity, as awareness creates the market for wells, catchment tanks and latrines.

Says Steve Henshaw, CEO of EnviroForensics, “We invite people in Indianapolis to learn more about the global water crisis. Organizations like WaterAid provide sustainable solutions around the globe. Since 1982, they’ve helped 44 million people gain access to clean water and sanitation. We support just one of their many projects that provide long term solutions.” The open house reception on March 22, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 825 N. Capitol Avenue, is being held on the U.N.’s designated date for annual celebrations of World Water Day. Pre-registration is recommended but not required.

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For more information about the World Water Day event, Water for Empowerment or EnviroForensics, please contact Jackie Cabrera, jcabrera@enviroforensics.com or 317-972-7870.

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