Building Community Bridges Inc., (BCB) has 7 days to raise a grand total of $5,000 to support their operations that bring clean water to rural villages in Togo and West Africa. According to the CIA World Factbook, bacterial diarrhea is a very high risk of death to citizens of Togo. Lack of clean drinking water, hygiene [...]
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WaterWideWeb Celebrates World H20 Day in NYC
WaterWideWeb celebrated World Water Day 2011 at the Phillips Club on New York City’s Upper West Side. Building Community Bridges (BCB), a non-profit organization that provides clean drinking water for rural villages in West Africa, hosted a charitable event to raise awareness about the difference water makes to local communities in Togo. BCB founder Enyonam Nanevie [...]
South America, africa, asia, water projects
Giving the Gift of Clean Water this Holiday Season
What better time than the holidays to rethink the value of a gift? As developed nations prepare their shopping lists, millions of children in under developed nations are still lacking the most essential necessity for life— clean water. Children in poor countries often have up to 1,000 parasitic worms in their body due to lack of [...]
Student NGO Builds Wells in India
In 2007, an eighth grade student traveled to the rural village of Paras, India. Rujul Zaparde witnessed villagers walking over one mile a day to find clean water. The sight moved the young Zaparde. When he returned to the United States, he partnered with a peer, Kevin Petrovic, and the two founded Drinking Water for [...]
The Biggest Issue of the 21st Century: Water Security
Global water demands are increasing. Food security and energy production are major considerations in global water security. Public health and economic development are in large part moderated by the management of water systems. Essentially, the future of the world is contingent upon safe and sustainable water systems. But how is the international community addressing this [...]
Save a Water Well Save Lives
Rehabilitating broken water wells is an investment in global health, education, poverty reduction, and the safety of women and girls in developing nations. Water well rehabilitation secures the initial monetary and social investment made when water wells in a developing country were installed. Sometimes, saving water wells could mean saving a life. In Cote D’Ivoire and [...]
Colombia And Waste Water Management
Colombia’s water and waste water management infrastructure are costing the lives of civilians every year. In Colombia, 2,300 deaths per year result from water, sanitation, and hygiene related issues. This number accounts for 70 percent of deaths attributable to environmental conditions within the country.
Tunis Water project
On June 17, The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the Northern Tunis Wastewater Project for US$ 8.03 million. The goal of the project is “to reduce the environmental impact of treated wastewater dischared into the Gulf of Tunis by building a submarine outfall.
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