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WaterAid is calling for “immediate action to end the ecocide caused by illegal mining” following reports that the Ghana Water Company has been forced to reduce its clean water supply by 75%, impacting hundreds of thousands of residents across the southern coast of the country.  The Ghana Water Limited  reports that it cannot handle the current volume of pollution, which is now seven times higher than usual, due to illegal gold mining on major water bodies in Eastern, Ashanti, Central and Western Region. The River Pra – one of the largest rivers…

WaterAid is delighted to announce its award-winning, intimate documentary portrait ‘Water is Coming’, has been selected to feature as part of this year’s Big Syn International Film Festival in London, the world’s biggest sustainability film festival.   ‘Water is Coming’ was directed and produced by Aśka Faron from WaterAid UK. In keeping with WaterAid’s pioneering approach to give communities control over how their stories are told, this film was produced in close collaboration with WaterAid Bangladesh and local filmmakers, as well as the Munda community of Bhetkhali, where they tell…

Actors Indira Varma, Adjoa Andoh, David Morrissey, Dougray Scott and Ariyon Bakare are among several celebrities backing WaterAid’s Vote Water campaign by adding their name to an open letter highlighting the global water and climate crisis and calling for urgent action.  Actors Sir Mark Rylance, Finbar Lynch, and Niamh Cusack, comedian Aisling Bea, and presenter Tyler West have also pledged their support for the not-for-profit’s campaign, which calls on the UK’s new Labour Government to prioritise investment in clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene in the international development budget.    …