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Global Water Challenge and Cargill Improve Clean Water Access for 150,000 People in Water-Stressed Regions

Today Cargill and Global Water Challenge (GWC) announced an important milestone of improving access to safe drinking water for more than 150,000 people through their Cargill Currents partnership.

Groundbreaking Research Confirms Seaweed Farming’s Potential as a Blue Carbon Solution

Oceans 2050, under the leadership of President Alexandra Cousteau and Chief Scientist Professor Carlos Duarte, has unveiled landmark findings published in Nature Climate Change that demonstrate the significant climate mitigation potential of seaweed farming.

Global Handwashing Day: Extending a Hand to Promote Health and Hygiene to Communities Across the World

For many households around the world, waking up every day with access to clean water for washing, preparing food, and practicing proper hygiene is an expected convenience. Clean running water to wash hands from a readily available tap becomes a naturally anticipated resource that forms part of daily life without much consideration.

Global Water Challenge Expands it’s Partnership with The Coca-Cola System in Africa

The Coca-Cola Company in Africa and its bottling partners Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) and Coca-Cola HBC announced a USD $25 million investment to help address critical water-related challenges in local communities in 20 African countries.

Global Water Challenge and Cargill Expand Partnership Across Five Continents to Address Water Challenges

During World Water Week 2024, Global Water Challenge (GWC) and Cargill announced the expansion of their Cargill Currents partnership platform with a renewed investment of over $5MM USD over three years and new plans to tackle water-related challenges in communities and basins across five continents.

ALL TOGETHER NOW – Mobilizing community and basin-level resilience via corporate-led collective action

This #worldwaterday we are reminded that by working together to balance everyone’s needs, water can be a stabilizing force and catalyst for sustainable development and peace.

International Women’s Day: Delivering Hope and Promoting Empowerment Through Skills Development Training for Women in East Africa

Tumaini, Witnesy and Happy are good friends who work hard to support their families and children. The women live in a village in Njombe region situated in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, a beautiful area of East Africa located on the southern plateau, which rises from 600 to 3,000 meters above sea level.

Global Water Challenge and The Starbucks Foundation to Improve Water Access and Boost Community Livelihoods in Tanzania under New Collaboration

Today, The Starbucks Foundation and Global Water Challenge (GWC) inaugurated the second phase of the WASH & Women Empowerment (WAWE) project in Tanzania, East Africa, marking the expansion of activities of their collaboration which started in 2021.

Global Handwashing Day: The Importance of Continued Awareness of Proper Hand Hygiene

Over the last three years, people in urbanized spaces around the world have become accustomed to hand hygiene protocols. The COVID-19 pandemic sensitized ordinary citizens to the importance of frequent handwashing.

International Coffee Day: A Measure on the Impact of Coffee for a Community in East Africa

International Coffee Day was established in 2014 by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) to build awareness and recognition for the coffee sector’s many stakeholders across the globe.

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VA 22206 Phone: +1 703 379 2713
info@globalwaterchallenge.org

The Executive Secretariat for Global Water Challenge is provided by the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF).