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The Alliance collectively increases water resilience and sanitation access globally

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Our Members

Millennium Water Alliance is a global alliance of leading humanitarian, research, and business organizations. MWA's global and national hubs work with our members to scale and influence sustained water and sanitation services and resilience globally.

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Our mission? Improving access to clean and safe water. Smart, sustainable, and practical solutions to water issues worldwide, that’s our ambition. 

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We put women and girls in the center because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities.

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CAWST develops the capacity of local organizations to make their own decisions and meet communities' needs for water.

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Chemonics works with local partners to overcome the complex challenges to achieving lasting water security and sustainable access to safe WASH. 

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Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas in more than 100 countries.

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The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is a recognized world leader in basic and applied environmental research. 

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We co-create with communities to build sustainable water systems. It’s not free, it’s dignified, and that makes all the difference.

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Food for the Hungry seeks to end ALL forms of human poverty by going to the hard places and walking with the world’s most vulnerable people.

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The vision of the Helvetas network is a just world in which all men and women determine the course of their lives in dignity and security.

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Global Water Center collaborates to develop, share, replicate, and scale solutions for sustainable safe water access.

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An international think tank actively building strong water, sanitation and hygiene systems – from the bottom up and the top down. 

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We mobilize churches and communities to cultivate sustainable WASH programs serving roughly 5 million people.

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PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity.

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In the US and around the world, we work to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.

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Splash is at the forefront of a growing movement to ensure that children in urban poverty have the resources they need to thrive.

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The Mortenson Center combines education, research, and partnerships to positively impact vulnerable people.

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WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to clean water, hygiene, and sanitation in the most vulnerable communities around the world.

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Water Mission is a Christian engineering ministry providing sustainable safe water solutions, through a Christian world view perspective.

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A global non-profit working with partners to research and develop practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive.

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We partner with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

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Membership

Become a Member

Join the Millennium Water Alliance! Are you part of a business, non-profit, technology, research institution, or other organization that is part of the movement to increase water resilience and sanitation services globally? Join our community of leading organizations in this sector! Contact info@mwawater.org to learn about becoming a MWA member.

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About Us

 

 

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Learning and Resources

 

 

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Member Spotlight

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Save the Children integrates WASH work with other health, education or child protection activities that contribute to their three Agency Breakthroughs to ensure that children around the world SurviveThrive and are Protected. In the United States and around the world, Save the Children is dedicated to ensuring every child has the best chance for success.

With over $70m in global WASH funding, Save the Children leads WASH activities funded by a variety of other private and public donors across 40 countries. Save the Children’s programs advance universal access to quality WASH services in households, communities, health facilities, and schools across development and emergency contexts.

Naw Lay at Handwashing station in Myanmar (credit: Nyein Thaw Htoo)

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The Mortenson Center in Global Engineering (MCGE) at the University of Colorado Boulder trains engineers to work in partnership with institutions and communities worldwide to develop improved tools and methods to address global challenges.

Our program is based on the principle that students educated in Global Engineering will be prepared to solve engineering and science problems within the socioeconomic, environmental and political constraints often encountered in lower-resource settings. We combine education, research and partnerships to positively impact vulnerable people and their environment. Our vision is a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure.

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Acacia Water is convinced there is enough water available for everyone. However, three factors are essential to address when approaching WASH related topics: 1) the quantity of the demand and the various user groups; 2) the preconditions set by the landscape and hydrological systems; and 3) the technical specific benefits and limitation of interventions. The power of our services lies in the integration of these elements and the ability to pass such knowledge to improve local capacity, both in a development program as well as emergency response.

Acacia Water distinguishes itself by collaborating closely with universities and research institutes. Together with implementing partners we translate the latest scientific developments in the fields of hydrology and environment into innovative and practical solutions to improve access to water resources and meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Photo: Field visit in Turkana for borehole yield measurements and quality assessments with Catholic Relief Services - Nov 2018.

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WaterAid is one of the world’s best-known WASH implementers. Working in 25 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, since 1981 WaterAid has helped bring clean water to 26.4 million people and reliable toilets to 26.3 million people.

A member of MWA since 2010, WaterAid is also one of the best-known advocates for WASH, globally and in the U.S.  MWA and WaterAid are leaders in the WASH advocacy coalition that has successfully raised the level of US government funding for international water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Today, among it many innovative programming initiatives, WaterAid is helping to build -term resiliency in global health. Leonardo Da Vinci said, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” When it comes to global health, handwashing and hygiene are as simple as interventions come. Yet, the return on investment and health impacts are exponential.

Photo: Samjhana bathes her son with her mother, Bina, as part of a WaterAid hygiene program for new mothers in Jajarkot, Nepal.

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Action Against Hunger is a global 7,700-employee humanitarian organization that takes action against the causes and effects of hunger. Begun in France in 1979, known as Action Contre la Faim, the organization has grown to a global network with eight independent headquarters and satellite locations and programs in more than 45 countries.

Because water, sanitation, and hygiene are so strongly linked to effective programs in nutrition and food security, the organization direct implements WASH interventions in 37 of its missions. Action Against Hunger joined MWA in December 2019.

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Improving Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Collective Impact

The Millennium Water Alliance and its members serve over 50 million people in over 100 countries and are leading advocates for greater water and sanitation commitments by governments and the private sector.

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MWA News

Lessons From Practice: WASH in Schools Ethiopia (WISE) Project in Dera, Amhara Region

Feb 29, 2024

Executive Summary The water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in Schools in Ethiopia (WISE) initiative, funded by the Conrad…

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Millennium Water Alliance Awarded New USAID STAWI Program in Kenya

Jan 10, 2024

Nairobi, Kenya, January 10, 2024 – Advancing the goal of practical and scaled localization in the WASH sector,…

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Pioneering Sustainable Water Solutions with Carbon Credit Financing in Drought-Stricken Northern Kenya (DRIP-FUNDI)

Dec 1, 2023

Climate change driven drought and challenges in maintaining emergency groundwater supplies have led to millions of people living…

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