WaterAid
Sign in to saveWaterAid is an international non-governmental organization, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. It was set up in 1981 as a response to the UN International Drinking Water decade (1981–1990). As of 2025, it is operating in 30 countries.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1981
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.511875.f · ISNI 0000 0004 0629 8848
Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 933
- Revenue
- 92116000
- Official website
- www.wateraid.org
- Image
- WaterAid with panel.jpg
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- inception
- 1981-00-00
- donations
- 62828000
- number of volunteers
- 870
- social media followers
- 30488
- Commons category
- WaterAid
- bequest income
- 14326000
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Fundraising
- Activities
- COVID-19 response
- Zambia
- Efforts in Monze District
- Milenge Self Supply Project
- America
- India
- Approach
- Achievements
- Bangladesh
- Latrine design and construction
- Hygiene education
- Canada
- See also
- References
- External links
WaterAid is an international non-governmental organization, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. It was set up in 1981 as a response to the UN International Drinking Water decade (1981–1990). As of 2025, it is operating in 30 countries.
The organisation was first established by the UK water industry on 21 July 1981 as a charitable trust at their main office premises in London and established its first projects in Zambia and Sri Lanka. In 2010, it became a federation, comprising, , members in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the US, and regional offices and country programmes in a further 23 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Activities involve providing people with clean water, safe sanitation, hygiene behaviour change and advocacy with governments and water utilities. Its income has moved from £1 million per annum in 1987 to £113 million in 2018–19.