#rainwater

🇰🇪 Kenya · Africa Sand Dam Foundation

A Kenyan NGO that has helped drylands communities build 680 stone sand dams across seasonal rivers, banking rainy-season flow underground where it can't evaporate or run dry.

🇵🇪 Peru · Aquafondo (Fondo de Agua para Lima y Callao)

Lima's water fund is rehabilitating pre-Inca infiltration canals high in the Andes so rain captured in the wet season keeps the capital's rivers flowing through the dry months.

🇲🇦 Morocco · Foundation Dar Si Hmad (FDSH)

A women-led Moroccan NGO built North Africa's largest fog-harvesting system, turning Atlantic sea mist into piped drinking water for remote Anti-Atlas villages.

🇺🇸 United States · Depave

Volunteers tear up unused asphalt and concrete across Portland, turning parking lots and schoolyards back into soil, trees and community green space.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Gravity Water

A nonprofit installing gravity-powered rainwater harvesting and filtration systems that give Vietnamese schools reliable, energy-free safe drinking water.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Isla Urbana

Installs rainwater harvesting systems that bring reliable water to Mexican homes and schools cut off from municipal supply.

🇮🇳 India · Project Bawri

A community-driven initiative restoring centuries-old stepwells across Rajasthan so monsoon rain can once again recharge village aquifers.

🇮🇳 India · Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

WOTR mobilizes villages across India's drought-prone drylands to build check-dams, contour trenches and ponds that recharge groundwater and bring barren common land back into production.

🇮🇳 India · Tarun Bharat Sangh

India's 'Waterman' Rajendra Singh turned a dying craft of earthen check dams into a movement that brought dried-up Rajasthan rivers back to life.

🇸🇰 Slovakia · People and Water (Ľudia a voda)

A Slovak NGO's low-cost check dams, ponds and swales rewet drought-cracked farmland, restoring the landscape's natural water cycle one village at a time.

🇵🇪 Peru · Instituto de Montaña (The Mountain Institute Peru)

As tropical glaciers retreat, Andean communities are digging out 1,000-year-old canals and reservoirs to keep water flowing through the dry season.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Stichting Steenbreek

A national Dutch foundation gets residents and city councils competing to pry up paving tiles from front gardens and streets and replace them with plants.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Warka Water Inc.

Bamboo towers designed by architect Arturo Vittori harvest up to 100 liters of drinking water a day from fog, dew, and rain.