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WaterAid has announced the launch of a one-year program to advocate and inform policy change for improved access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) in healthcare facilities in Africa through a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The $1.49 million grant focuses on Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda and addresses challenges preventing frontline healthcare workers, patients and surrounding communities from accessing clean water, handwashing facilities and decent toilets that lead to unsafe working conditions, increased disease spread and greater health risk for mothers and newborns. The result will…

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Clean water, decent toilets and handwashing facilities are vital for business success, and often drive a steep return on investment, WaterAid’s latest research, ‘Boosting business: why investing in water, sanitation and hygiene pays off’, shows. Water and sanitation, at home, in the community and at work are foundations for health and wellbeing. By investing in them, companies can foster a host of socio-economic benefits for employees and their families – boosting productivity, reducing sickness and absenteeism and cutting medical and sick pay costs, according to the new research. Businesses can…

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WaterAid has unveiled an installation of three dolls houses – each at different stages of flooding – on the docks of London’s Canary Wharf, to highlight the effects of the climate crisis on children globally and demand urgent action from governments ahead of COP27 this November. The international charity worked with Bristol-based artist and set-designer, Max Dorey, to create the dolls’ houses – populated with everyday childhood items such as toys and letter-blocks – and showing the devastation caused by rising flood waters. The final dolls house is almost completely…

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Clean water, decent toilets and handwashing facilities are vital for business success, and often drive a steep return on investment, WaterAid’s latest research, ‘Boosting business: why investing in water, sanitation and hygiene pays off’, shows. Water and sanitation, at home, in the community and at work are foundations for health and wellbeing. By investing in them, companies can foster a host of socio-economic benefits for employees and their families – boosting productivity, reducing sickness and absenteeism and cutting medical and sick pay costs, according to the new research. Businesses can…

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