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Staying in school with WASH
As part of the HSBC Water Programme, WaterAid have installed a new tap stand and toilets in the village of Kushadevi, located in the Kavre district in Nepal. Students at a local school now have access to clean water and sanitation during the day, increasing their access to education and enhancing their future employment opportunities.
Arctic Trekkers in Training – An update from HSBC’s Karolina Macner
In August, 100 brave HSBC employees will be trekking 100 kilometres across the Arctic to raise money for WaterAid. Before the trekkers embark on the ultimate Arctic challenge, they have been undertaking some serious training. Karolina Macner has given us an update on what the London team have been up to in order to prepare themselves, and some tips for other trekkers in training!
Tourism for good: the role of hotels in ending the water and sanitation crisis
A new report from International Tourism Partnership has demonstrated the vital role hotel companies can play in widening access to clean water and sanitation globally.
In a new report, the International Tourism Partnership outline some simple steps for hotel companies to follow to improve overall water stewardship practices, taking into account the access to clean water and sanitation of the communities they are operating in.
Loans for change: supporting women’s businesses in Nepal
Radhika Adhikari, 38, lives in Itahari, Nepal, with her husband, three children and mother-in-law. Using loans from the Sangini Savings and Credit Cooperative, an initiative supported by the HSBC Water Programme, Radhika has built up her own business.
Radhika lives in in the city of Irahari in Nepal, with her husband, three children and mother-in-law. Radhika’s life has been transformed by initiatives supported by the HSBC Water Programme.
The Water Gap: access to water across the globe in 2018
Water stress is an issue affecting more than half of the world’s population, with 60% of people currently living in areas of water stress, where the supply of water cannot or will not continue to meet demand. 844 million people globally do not have access to clean water, a number which has risen from last year due to the increasing pressures of urbanisation, population growth, shock weather events and poor financing and prioritisation of water supply.
Landmark deal to conserve the world’s largest wetland announced on World Water Day
On World Water Day 2018, the world's largest tropical wetland has received invaluable new protections from three countries, ensuring that all future development of this extraordinary landscape is balanced with the needs of wildlife and people.
UN warns around 5 billion people could face water shortages by 2050
The United Nations annual World Water Development report has said that by 2050, ar
Women and Water photo exhibition
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, WaterAid talked to 8 women in Nepal and Pakistan, supported through HSBC Water Programme, to find out what happiness/wellness means to them.
Please meet the women and read their inspirational stories in our photo exhibition “Women and Water”.
Click here to view the gallery
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The challenge of a soaring population with dwindling water
By 2050 more than half of the world’s nine billion population will be living in water scarce regions - take a closer look at population growth and the water challenge.
Watch: What does it take to become Citizen Science Leader of the Year?
HSBC Citizen Science Leader of the Year Januarie Hall describes why she became involved in FreshWater Watch and what drives her to achieve as much as she can with the programme.
Growing recognition of the importance of citizen science
FreshWater Watch took centre stage at the National Water Quality Monitoring Conference in Florida to share our citizen science.
FreshWater Watch launches in Nigeria
FreshWater Watch launches in Nigeria to monitor faecal coliform bacteria in freshwater sources.
FreshWater Watch improving waters in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai
Leading scientists present water quality research from Earthwatch’s FreshWater Watch programme in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Citizen scientists keeping invasive species at bay
Citizen Scientist Leaders’ water data are helping to understand an imminent threat to a third of native fish in Lake Erie
Water Stories tells a tale on World Water Day
World Water Day was marked in fine style in London as we held the city’s launch of the Water Stories exhibition of photographs by Mustafah Abdulaziz.
World Water Day
Today is World Water Day – a global opportunity to take action, to make a difference and to be inspired by the vital role that water holds to life on Earth.
This year we are marking World Water Day with the London launch of Water Stories – a photographic exhibition by American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz.
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Arctic Trekkers in Training – An update from HSBC’s Karolina Macner
In August, 100 brave HSBC employees will be trekking 100 kilometres across the Arctic to raise money for WaterAid. Before the trekkers embark on the ultimate Arctic challenge, they have been undertaking some serious training. Karolina Macner has given us an update on what the London team have been up to in order to prepare themselves, and some tips for other trekkers in training!
Tourism for good: the role of hotels in ending the water and sanitation crisis
A new report from International Tourism Partnership has demonstrated the vital role hotel companies can play in widening access to clean water and sanitation globally.
In a new report, the International Tourism Partnership outline some simple steps for hotel companies to follow to improve overall water stewardship practices, taking into account the access to clean water and sanitation of the communities they are operating in.
Loans for change: supporting women’s businesses in Nepal
Radhika Adhikari, 38, lives in Itahari, Nepal, with her husband, three children and mother-in-law. Using loans from the Sangini Savings and Credit Cooperative, an initiative supported by the HSBC Water Programme, Radhika has built up her own business.
Radhika lives in in the city of Irahari in Nepal, with her husband, three children and mother-in-law. Radhika’s life has been transformed by initiatives supported by the HSBC Water Programme.
The Water Gap: access to water across the globe in 2018
Water stress is an issue affecting more than half of the world’s population, with 60% of people currently living in areas of water stress, where the supply of water cannot or will not continue to meet demand. 844 million people globally do not have access to clean water, a number which has risen from last year due to the increasing pressures of urbanisation, population growth, shock weather events and poor financing and prioritisation of water supply.
UN warns around 5 billion people could face water shortages by 2050
The United Nations annual World Water Development report has said that by 2050, ar
Women and Water photo exhibition
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, WaterAid talked to 8 women in Nepal and Pakistan, supported through HSBC Water Programme, to find out what happiness/wellness means to them.
Please meet the women and read their inspirational stories in our photo exhibition “Women and Water”.
Click here to view the gallery
Building businesses and access to WASH in Pakistan
A new WaterAid project in Pakistan, funded by the HSBC Water Programme, has provided training for entrepreneurs to support the growth of their businesses.
Zulfiqar Ali, 31, is a small business owner living in the village of Kalarwali in Punjab, Pakistan. Zulfiqar owns a small shop which sells materials used to build sanitary structures, such as toilets and sinks.
Supporting Nepal’s homestay industry with clean water and sanitation
Supporting the growth of small businesses may not be an obvious result of having access to clean water and sanitation. However, an eco-homestay project in Nepal relies on these facilities to succeed.
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Different Backgrounds, Shared Goal - By Denise Hruby
In northern India, WWF has linked people up and down society to clean the Ramganga river
By Denise Hruby
With a strong underhand toss, an elderly man releases a blue plastic bag full of garbage, letting it fly in a long arc over the banks of the river. As the bag lands next to two men who have come for an afternoon swim, it the sack of waste makes a flat splash.
HSBC Water Programme film with message of water-wise development wins global sustainability film award
WWF’s film ‘How improving farms helps protect the Mara River: Nancy’s story’ has won ‘Protecting the Environment’ category in the tve Global Sustainability Awards 2016, announced this week at an awards ceremony held at the British Academy of the Arts (BAFTA).
Constructed wetlands in the Mara
The Mara River, site of the site of a phenomenon dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the world is arguably the lifeline to the tourism industry to the great Mara River Basin. In July and August – peak season in the Mara – visitors from across the globe flock to witness the breathtaking wildebeest migration.
Celebrating the world’s wonderful waterways on World Rivers Day
World Rivers Day, celebrated this Sunday 25 September, is one day in the year to acknowledge the vitally important role that our world’s waterways play in our everyday life, and in supporting life on earth.
It’s also a time to highlight some of the inspiring work we’re achieving together through the HSBC Water Programme to foster better river stewardship for future generations of people, and wildlife.
Reason to celebrate: Target reached for healthy communities in the Mara and beyond
It’s hard enough being a single mother, but Nancy Rono faces the challenge of raising her family in an area facing relentless challenges to its most vital and basic resource: Water.
Nancy is one of 1 million people who reply on the Mara river basin for their livelihoods, in a region facing enormous environmental pressures due to population growth and unsustainable depletion of natural resources.
Guardians of the Mekong
In Laos, being asked to be a river guard is an honour: it is a position of authority, and in the long term patrol members are protecting both the environment and the livelihood of their village.
Green Education in the Mekong
Five pilot ‘Green Schools’ in Laos have been established by WWF-Laos to further conservation education among young people in the Greater Mekong.
The last Mekong dolphins of Cambodia: A baby is born
WWF conservation experts were jubilant when they spotted a mother dolphin with her newly born baby in Kampi pool on the banks of the Mekong River
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