Perth Laboratory – Public Seminar Series 2008

Water for Life – An introduction to WaterAid

Jenny Whitehead
WaterAid (UK)

Thursday 28th February 2008 at 3.30pm, CSIRO Auditorium

Abstract

Clean water is essential for life, but over a billion people in the world do not have it. This and the lack of sanitation result in over two million people dying from water-related diseases every year. The lack of clean water close to people's homes also affects people's time, livelihoods and quality of life. WaterAid is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to helping people escape the poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation. WaterAid and its partners work with people in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region to improve their quality of life through lasting improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene education using local skills and practical, sustainable technologies.

About the speaker

Jenny Whitehead works for a UK Water Company and is visting Australia to help promote WaterAid (Australia). In this short presentation Jenny will provide an overview of WaterAid's activities and explain how you can get involved.

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