“Water washes everything but it is not easy to wash water”
(African proverb).
Supplying water, collecting rainwater, re-using wastewater, environmental clean-up, school hygiene, sustainable irrigation, IMWR (Integrated Management of Water Resources), etc.: The Foundation has made water and sanitation its first field of involvement , allocating 65% of its funds for that purpose.
Key figures
- Currently, one and a half billion people do not have access to drinking water (30% of the population of South Africa, 19% in India); two and a half billion have no sanitation system
- Nearly 2.4 million children under five die each year throughout the world, due to lack of hygiene or a suitable solution to the problem of water supplies and basic sanitation
- Over the last century, the world’s population increased threefold, water consumption six fold
- 85% of human waste is disposed of without purification of any kind, either on land thus polluting natural resources and in particular the water table, or straight into water courses and the sea
Projects
To consult details of Water and Sanitation programmes supported by Fondation Ensemble, please refer to the section titled Grants
given information on projects granted and countries in which they are implemented ; and Newsletters
for the Small Grants
' fund.
Some examples amongst the 25 programmes in this area that have been supported since the Foundation was set up:
- Water Aid, Burkina Faso: water, sanitation and hygiene education
- Care, Peru: waste water treatment by biological filtration
- Harvest, India: water conservation, action against salination within the soil
- I D, China: protection of water resources and biogases
- WECF, Ukraine : ecological sanitation
The Foundation has made technical sheets available online, provided by our partners, describing the processes they use and/or are developing.
The selection criteria can be found in the section headed Small Grants Funding for applications for financing under 30,000 €. For projects eligible for Programmes Funds , the criteria are set out on the Selection Criteria page.
Those organisations wishing to submit a proposal, click on Propose a draft.
