Tagged: World Water Day

Hygiene, health and education unlocked: Clean water is helping communities in remote Timor-Leste

Water and sanitation

By Sophie Raynor, UNICEF Timor-Leste

Hygiene, health and education unlocked: Clean water is helping communities in remote Timor-Leste

Walking hours per day for clean, safe water was a reality for hundreds of children in remote Timor-Leste not too long ago. But now, community-led efforts have seen water piped into the centres of some of the country’s most isolated hamlets, and its children accessing good health and secure education. Find out how UNICEF is supporting a… Read more →←

Clean hands, healthy lives in Timor-Leste

Water and sanitation

By Emma Coupland

Clean hands, healthy lives in Timor-Leste

“I wash my hands as soon as I come to school. We know that dirty hands can make us sick,” says Talia de Oliveira (12) while washing her hands with soap before the meal break at Bairopite Primary School in Timor-Leste. Celestino da Costa Novo (10), standing almost a head shorter than Talia, was also washing his hands. With his spiky… Read more →←

The Last Islanders: rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea

Education Water and sanitation

By Simon Nazer

The Last Islanders: rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea

“We can see it with our own eyes, I’m afraid,” said Maria, 13. “The sea is eating the ground.” Maria lives on a remote atoll known as the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea and for over twenty years the islanders have been fighting a battle against the rising sea levels. The islanders have been building seawalls and planting… Read more →←

World Water Day: Saving lives, creating jobs in Cambodia

Water and sanitation

By UNICEF EAPRO

World Water Day: Saving lives, creating jobs in Cambodia

The theme for today’s World Water Day is Better water, better jobs, focusing on how safe water can change workers’ lives and livelihoods – and even transform societies and economies. UNICEF works throughout the region to not only help bring safe, clean water to communities and schools but to also help transform… Read more →←

World Water Day 2015: Water is Health

School students in Fiji

Water and sanitation

By Chander Badloe

World Water Day 2015: Water is Health

Water is health: that’s the key message of today’s World Water Day and something UNICEF has been promoting for many years. World Water Day is a fitting moment to reflect on the achievements made over the last decades in providing safe water and adequate sanitation and hygiene to communities all over the world. It also reminds us of… Read more →←

Video: World Water Day 2014

Water and sanitation

By Andy Brown

Video: World Water Day 2014

Chander Badloe, UNICEF Regional Adviser on Water and Sanitation, explains the importance of improving children’s access to clean water and proper sanitation in East Asia and the Pacific, where more than 180 million people still live without access to safe Read more →←

Too little, too much, too dirty!

World Water Day

Health and nutrition

By UNICEF EAPRO

Too little, too much, too dirty!

Everyone can agree that water is crucial to human survival, but how much time to we spend thinking about it? So for World Water Day, everyone is being urged to take a few moments to think about one of the most precious natural resource we all use on a daily basis – water. The availability of water is often taken for granted. We expect… Read more →←