#sanitation

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · DACAAR (Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees)

Afghanistan's largest WASH NGO drills wells, monitors groundwater and rebuilds water networks across all 34 provinces, even as aid budgets shrink.

🇸🇻 El Salvador · Caminos de Acción

A grassroots nonprofit is bringing household water storage, filtration, and sanitation to a rural Salvadoran community where contaminated water once left most residents with parasites.

🇱🇷 Liberia · FACE Africa

A Liberian-founded nonprofit builds wells, latrines and rainwater systems while training women-majority water committees across rural Liberia.

🇱🇷 Liberia · Champions for Nature Conservation Liberia (CNCL)

A Monrovia-based NGO pays residents by the kilogram to sort and hand over plastic waste before it clogs the wetlands that feed the city.

🇮🇳 India · Gram Vikas

A rural Odisha NGO refuses to install a single tap or toilet in a village until every household, rich or poor, agrees to join in and build them together.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · blueEnergy

Since 2004, this off-grid engineering nonprofit has been wiring solar power and clean water into isolated Caribbean-coast Nicaraguan communities.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Nepal River Conservation Trust (NRCT)

Nepal's oldest river-conservation group, running weekly clean-ups and a 25-year-old festival to restore Kathmandu's sacred Bagmati River.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · River Action UK

A fast-growing charity is suing water companies and industrial chicken farms to rescue England's sewage- and slurry-choked rivers.

🇭🇹 Haiti · SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)

Household container toilets in urban Haiti turn human waste into rich agricultural compost through a circular sanitation economy.

🇺🇬 Uganda · SPOUTS International

A Kampala social enterprise fires clay into ceramic filters so Ugandan households can stop boiling water over smoky charcoal fires.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Sanergy

Social enterprise converting fecal sludge from Nairobi's informal settlements into organic fertilizer, insect protein and biogas.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Save the Vaal Environment (SAVE)

A committee of Vaal River residents has spent three decades hauling South African officials to court to stop raw sewage from destroying the country's third-longest river.

🇮🇳 India · People United for Better Living in Calcutta (PUBLIC)

Kolkata's sewage is cleaned for free by fishponds its own fisherfolk built — and the only reason those ponds still exist is a public interest case filed in 1992.

🇺🇸 United States · Riverkeeper

The original riverkeeper patrol boat that inspired a global movement still hunts down pollution on the Hudson and safeguards drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.

🌍 Global · Water.org

Matt Damon and Gary White's nonprofit unlocking safe water and sanitation through small, affordable WaterCredit loans.