#water-access

🇦🇫 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.

🇮🇳 India · Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG)

In flood-prone Gorakhpur, women farmers are turning the city's peri-urban wetlands and fields into working flood buffers that also feed their families.

🇸🇻 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.

🇲🇦 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.

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Center for Environment (Centar za životnu sredinu)

A Banja Luka NGO whose river-protection campaigns persuaded Bosnia's second-largest city, and a dozen more municipalities, to pledge no new dams on their rivers.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Seoul Metropolitan Government

Seoul demolished an elevated highway and daylighted a buried stream, turning 5.8 kilometers of concrete into a cooler, wildlife-rich green corridor through downtown.

🇫🇯 Fiji · Live & Learn Fiji

From mangrove replanting to cyclone-ready water systems, rural Fijian villages are building their own climate defences with Indigenous knowledge at the core.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD)

Along Vietnam's storm-battered coast, fishing and farming communities are pairing mangrove restoration with climate-adaptive livelihoods to ride out the next typhoon.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Practical Action

Community-run gauge readers and telephone chains now give flood-prone Nepali villages hours of extra warning before rivers burst their banks.

🇭🇳 Honduras · Agua Para el Pueblo

A Honduran NGO builds community-run drinking water treatment plants that bring clean, piped water to towns once dependent on contaminated sources.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Duzi-uMngeni Conservation Trust (DUCT)

Since 2005, DUCT has been watchdog and rehab crew for the uMsunduzi and uMngeni Rivers, pairing water-quality monitoring with jobs for the communities living along their banks.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Drinkwell

Drinkwell installs water kiosks using patented filtration resins to remove arsenic and other contaminants from drinking water in Bangladesh.

🌍 Global · EcoPeace Middle East

Trinational NGO uniting Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists to restore the shared Jordan River basin.

🇱🇷 Liberia · FACE Africa

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

🇰🇪 Kenya · Kenya Red Cross Society

Instead of waiting for a drought to become a crisis, Kenya Red Cross now releases cash, seeds and water repairs the moment forecasts turn ugly.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Gift of the Givers Foundation

Founded by Imtiaz Sooliman in 1992, South Africa's largest disaster-relief NGO drills boreholes, runs desalination plants, and trucks millions of litres of water to communities in crisis across Africa and beyond.

🇰🇪 Kenya · GivePower

Solar-powered desalination in shipping containers turns seawater into affordable drinking water for coastal Kenya.

🇮🇳 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.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Gravity Water

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

🇨🇲 Cameroon · Green Cameroon

A Buea-based grassroots NGO that replants degraded slopes around Mount Cameroon and restores community water sources across all ten of Cameroon's regions.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Hippo Roller

A 90-litre rolling barrel that lets rural families move five buckets' worth of water in a single easy trip.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Isla Urbana

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

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Jo-Jikum

Marshallese teenagers turn traditional weaving and songwriting into climate advocacy that reaches all the way to COP summits.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · blueEnergy

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

🇨🇾 Cyprus · Terra Cypria - The Cyprus Conservation Foundation

On an island where dam levels have dropped to a fraction of capacity, this Limassol-based foundation mapped every wetland in Cyprus and now fights to keep its rivers and salt lakes alive.

🇷🇸 Serbia · RERI (Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute)

A Belgrade legal watchdog using Serbia's own regulations to fight illegally sited small hydropower plants that were draining protected mountain rivers.

🇮🇳 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.

🇧🇴 Bolivia · Fundación Natura Bolivia

Bolivian farmers protect the forests that feed their taps, paid in beehives and fruit trees instead of cash.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA)

A community-rooted Trelawny NGO is replanting native forest in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, the karst wilderness that supplies 40 percent of the island's freshwater.

🇸🇰 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.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)

Lebanon's oldest environmental NGO revives the ancient Hima system of community stewardship to protect the country's rivers, wetlands and water-scarce highlands.

🌍 Global · Ryan's Well Foundation

The charity that grew from six-year-old Ryan Hreljac's first well has now funded over 1,800 water projects in 17 countries.

🇺🇬 Uganda · SPOUTS International

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

🇯🇴 Jordan · Sahara Forest Project

Norwegian-designed facility in Jordan's desert growing vegetables using seawater-cooled greenhouses and concentrated solar power.

🇾🇪 Yemen · Socotra Dragon Blood Tree Association

French and Socotri islanders are raising community tree nurseries, beehives and water pipelines to save Socotra's iconic, storm-battered dragon blood trees.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Gret

Gret's multifunctional solar platforms bring electricity, mills and clean water to Mauritanian villages too remote or small for the national grid.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Comet-ME (Community, Energy and Technology in the Middle East)

An Israeli-Palestinian NGO builds solar-and-wind hybrid mini-grids and water systems for herding communities in the South Hebron Hills who are barred from connecting to the electric grid.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha

A fleet of solar-powered boats turns into classrooms, libraries and clinics for children in Bangladesh's flood-prone river districts.

🇩🇯 Djibouti · Impact Water Solutions

A solar-powered, battery-free desalination unit on Lake Ghoubet delivers free drinking water to a Djiboutian community that had none.

🇰🇪 Kenya · SunCulture

A Kenyan climate-tech company sells pay-as-you-go solar irrigation pumps that let smallholder farmers grow food year-round without diesel fuel or grid power.

🇹🇩 Chad · Water4Chad

Chadian drilling teams are sinking solar-powered wells across the country's driest regions, freeing communities from hours-long walks to contaminated water.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS)

Sudan's oldest environmental NGO keeps a 113-branch volunteer network running climate-resilience and conservation projects despite the ongoing war.

🇪🇹 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.

🌍 Global · Water.org

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

🌍 Global · charity: water

Nonprofit funding clean water projects in 29 countries, with 100% of public donations going to the field.