40 years in numbers.
people reached with clean water
people reached with decent toilets
years working in Bangladesh
countries now using CLTS
people reached with water by 2011
people reached with sanitation by 2011
National Sanitation Award
the year WaterAid was founded in the UK
Figures drawn from WaterAid’s published programme reporting. To be confirmed against the current annual report before publication.
Reaching the last mile.
Forty years in, the gap is smaller but it is not closed. These are the numbers that keep our teams up at night.
people in Bangladesh still lack clean water close to home
people — around 45% of the country — still lack an adequate toilet
people still lack good hygiene practices at home
of global WASH funding goes to hygiene behaviour change, despite its role in preventing disease
Every face tells a story.
Shaping the systems that outlast a project.
National WASH policy dialogue
A forty-year retrospective and a forward look at climate-resilient WASH, developed with government and sector partners.
Climate-resilient WASH guidelines
Technical input into national planning standards, so water and sanitation infrastructure is built to survive floods, cyclones and salt intrusion.
Local government WASH financing
Advocacy for dedicated WASH budget lines within municipal and union parishad planning, so services outlast any single programme.
Methods built here, now used everywhere.
Community-Led Total Sanitation
The sanitation methodology born in a Bangladeshi village with VERC, now practised in around sixty countries.
Co-composting
Turning faecal sludge and household waste into agricultural fertiliser, closing the loop on sanitation most cities still simply dump.
Climate-resilient infrastructure
Pond sand filters, rainwater harvesting and elevated facilities, built to keep working through cyclones, floods and rising salinity.
National Sanitation Award
The Government of Bangladesh recognised our sanitation programme with a National Sanitation Award — an acknowledgement that belongs as much to the communities and partners who did the work as it does to us.
Water that survives the weather
Floods, cyclones and salt intrusion now break water systems faster than we can build them. Climate-resilient WASH is no longer a specialism at the edge of the programme. It is the programme.
40th Anniversary Impact Report
A full account of forty years, for donors, government and partners. PDF, English.