It may be hard for you to believe from where you are sitting, but nearly 2 billion people around the world rely on health care facilities that lack adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
Water Engineers for the Americas & Africa (WEFTA) works with amazing partners towards finding solutions for those living in communities, including health care facilities, where access to safe water and proper sanitation does not exist. These conditions are devastating and often deadly, but solvable if we all work together.
In the following article, Susan K. Barnett, Founder of Faiths for Safe Water, sums up the harsh global reality, and the new hope of a growing positive momentum.