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How far would you walk to find clean drinking water?
Over 2.4 million children in Somalia desperately need clean drinking water. Their lives depend on it. Share your support during World Water Week. Water is a right, not a privilege.
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More water, new hope
Like many farmers in Senegal, Guilé Mané used to struggle through the dry season. Now, Guilé says her life has changed because of a new water-gathering and storage system put in place through FAO’s “1 million cisterns for the Sahel” programme. Read about how water cisterns are giving Senegalese farmers a new outlook.
Toilet, what a treasure!
Aisha and Matias, who met in Congo after fleeing the conflict in Burundi in 2017, have raised their home and, most importantly, a toilet.
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Sanitation Work
We all use toilets, but most of us don't have to worry about where our waste goes. That's because there are sanitation workers dealing with that waste. But in many countries these workers are forced to work in horrifying conditions that both endanger their health and lives and leaves them ostracised from society. Explore the stories of sanitation workers.