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AB Sugar calls for ideas to tackle irrigation water loss

Stuart Mitchell

AB Sugar, in partnership with WaterAid and the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge, has today announced a worldwide initiative to generate new ideas to reduce water losses from irrigation in sugar, and beyond. AB Sugar is committed to reducing its environmental footprint; water and energy are the most vital resources for all its businesses and each are increasingly under risk in a world facing climate change, population rises and increasing constraints and depletion of natural resources. The Innovate Irrigation Challenge seeks to bring people together from…

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Soapmakers of Samabogo: soap and solidarity create the recipe for female empowerment in Mali

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid is celebrating the achievements of women by launching a powerful short film about a female-led soap-making group in Mali. The film, which premiered in London at Shorts on Tap’s film screening on 8 May, features a trailblazing co-operative whose microfinance business has created jobs, increased women’s confidence and independence and improved community well-being.   A quarter of Malians – around 4.5 million people – live without access to clean water, and two-thirds – over 12 million people – have no decent toilets. Women and children are particularly affected, with…

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WaterAid releases interactive educational tool to teach children about life in faraway locations

Stuart Mitchell

International charity WaterAid has launched its first-ever voice skill powered for Amazon Alexa, WaterAid Voices, an interactive storytelling experience for schools and families to help educate children about the state of the world’s water, toilets and hygiene. The skill will take children to a different land entirely – taking their minds out of the everyday to learn about life in the Madagascan village of Tsarafangitra. Through a series of six interactive voice messages, they will learn some handy phrases in the local language, recipes in Malagasy cuisine and how to…

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Kurt Geiger launches partnership with WaterAid to help transform lives through clean water

Stuart Mitchell

To mark World Water Day last month, Kurt Geiger has launched a partnership with WaterAid on their newest summer accessory: the leather Kensington Quench Cross Body Water Bottle Bag with matching reusable water bottle. The six-month partnership will see £15 from the sale of each £89 bottle going towards WaterAid’s valuable work to get clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to some of the world’s poorest communities. The limited edition Kensington Quench Water Bottle Bag  comes in two colours; quilted black and metallic rainbow and will be available to…

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WaterAid launches appeal for Cyclone Idai

Stuart Mitchell

The scale of the devastation from Cyclone Idai is now apparent: nearly 3 million people affected across Southeastern Africa, with hundreds of people dead, hundreds of thousands left homeless, and waterborne diseases like diarrhoea and cholera already being reported. The need is enormous, and urgent. WaterAid has today launched an emergency appeal to fund relief operations in two districts in Mozambique and Malawi. WaterAid is not an emergency response organisation and so is not a member of the DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee). However, when disasters affect the communities we work…

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