1. Name as many NGOs as you can

3. Learning Objective
To understand what NGOs (a key player) are doing to solve water scarcity
Why ?
Using named examples, assess the role of different players and decision makers in trying to secure a sustainable ‘water future’.(15)

4. What is the Link?

5. WaterAid – an NGO Very good advert on water aid
Water aid solutions

6. Water Aid Projects - Sustainable?
Works in 17 countries globally
Ethiopia
Mobile toilets have been established in the capital Addis Ababa
These help keep the environment clean
Provides the homeless with employment
Uganda
In the Wakiso district educate people about sanitation methods. Involves :
- Maintain water sources and stop animals using it
- Locals are taught how to construct latrines, so the water does not become contaminated with faeces
Ghana
Here over 5 million have no access to clean water
Wateraid provided tools and education on how to dig wells to pump clean water – go below the water table and put stones in bottom to act as filter
Villagers form a committee and decided where the well will be
Some trained in how to repair
Impacts – more people attend school, less illness, more people sell food and ice water, less time to fetch water
Bangladesh
Water Aid and its partners negotiated with the Dhaka city water authorities for permission to establish communal water points, where slum communities can access water from the city water supplies through hand pumps
The water points are run on a cost-recovery basis where users pay a small fee to the community management committee to use the facilities

7. WaterAid
Can WaterAid form part of a realistic solution to water supply problems in LEDCs?