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Nadiya Hussain launches WaterAid appeal to help get clean water to families around the world

Stuart Mitchell

TV chef and WaterAid ambassador Nadiya Hussain MBE last month launched the international charity’s ‘Where there’s water’ winter appeal, helping raise vital funds to turn on the taps in communities in Malawi and around the world and build a brighter future. The mother of three, who has supported WaterAid since 2016, saw first-hand the impact a lack of clean water can have on families during her childhood trips to visit her grandparents in Bangladesh. She’s said remembering the trips leaves her ‘in disbelief but better equipped’ to teach her children…

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Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright says becoming a mum “the most wonderful adventure so far” in new film for WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

Actor, activist and author Bonnie Wright has spoken about her ‘positive birth experience’ in a new film released today as part of WaterAid’s ’12 ways of water’ series, highlighting the positive ways clean water changes lives. One in five health centres globally do not have clean water on site putting millions of women and babies at risk of deadly diseases. In a video posted on her Instagram in collaboration with international charity WaterAid, the Harry Potter star says “where there’s water, there’s healthy babies”, before reminiscing about the biggest adventures…

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WaterAid demands immediate halt to illegal mining as water supply drops 75% due to pollution

Stuart Mitchell

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…

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Award-winning WaterAid film ‘Water is Coming’ showing the human side of the climate crisis to feature at the Big Syn International Film

Stuart Mitchell

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…

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Indira Varma, Adjoa Andoh, David Morrissey and Dougray Scott among stars supporting WaterAid campaign to new government

Stuart Mitchell

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.    …

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