PONKRUM, Ghana — The one public bathroom in Ponkrum collapsed a few years ago. An effort to build a new…
The unease on the face of Bill Gates is evident as the faucet fills his glass with water. After full,…
Sen. Thomas Coburn, R-Okla., lifted his hold on the Water for the World Act late last night to clear the…
The following is an abridged version of an investigative report I did with Jacob Kushner for the Ground Truth Project and…
Want to know where all the health centers are in Apa, Nigeria? There’s a map for that. In fact, the…
Everyone these days wants to find a better way to evaluate the performance of humanitarian and non-profit organizations, in part because many of these groups have for too long operated on the assumption that having good intentions, a noble mission, was good enough. But finding better metrics for do-gooders can be harder than it sounds.
If all goes according to plan, every person in the world will have access to clean water and sanitation by…
Wastewater in street (informal settlement near Cape Town), South Africa A planned protest regarding the poor sanitation conditions in Cape…
After fifty years in the game, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) unveiled its first ever water and…
The Gates Foundation recently awarded a $10.9 million grant to the Oakland-based East Meets West (EMW) Foundation to support the…