We Are Water Foundation
We Are Water Foundation is a ngo that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Valuing toilets beyond visible
Yesterday We are Water Foundation, in collaboration with Roca Lisboa Gallery and Give a Shit Project, organised the webinar “Valuing toilets beyond visible”, part of global efforts to raise awareness of global sanitation issues on the occasion of #WorldToiletDay, celebrated on November 19. The audience heard from experts that presented on-the-ground case studies from different […]
Cities: and suddenly, contagion
The health emergency poses new challenges to urban planning. The criteria of sustainability are broadened with those of health, and the concept of healthy city radically changes if extreme poverty is not taken into account. The awareness that individual health is synonymous with collective health is one of the lessons of Covid-19 that we should […]
With nature, not against it
Beyond human tragedy, COVID-19 poses a reflection on how we relate to each other and to nature. And it leads us to another vision of the problems that beset the human species.
Community resilience, Africa’s hope
Epidemics and pandemics have marked African history. COVID-19 arrives in the continent overlapping with other endemic diseases, serious medical deficiencies and unmet goals in the access to water and sanitation. The African population is well aware of the power of community spirit. It is their most powerful weapon in the fight against the pandemic and […]
Not everyone can wash their hands
The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of handwashing with soap and water as one of the keys to halting the spread of the disease. However, only three out of five people all around the world have basic facilities for this elementary standard of hygiene. Deaths from failure to do […]
Awareness and knowledge to face the climate crisis
The denial of climate change or its anthropogenic causes is a position that, although defended by a minority, has powerful political and economic allies that amplify and encourage it. The distortion of information and demagogy are favored by the inhibition caused by an excess of superficial and purely alarming information. Communicating by raising awareness while […]
Water and climate change: We all have a role to play
More than 2 billion people do not have access to drinking water or basic sanitation. Women and girls are in charge of collecting water in 80% of the households without access to drinking water. The shortness of water affects more than 40% of the world population and this percentage is expected to increase. Floods and other disasters related to water represent 70% of all deaths related to natural disasters.
Melting ice, the climate change we can see
The loss of ice on Earth is one of the most worrying and visible consequences of global warming. It has an impact on sea level rise, is capable of altering ocean dynamics and threatens to accelerate climate change. © Fernando Moleres _ Greenland Images are undisputable, they are an argument with the capacity to settle […]
Storms, how to adapt?
The latest violent meteorological phenomena experienced in the western Mediterranean area force a review of the factors that define the risk of people and goods. The intensification of exposure and vulnerability is an anthropogenic factor that must be controlled in the face of the foreseeable increase in storms that science is pointing out. Beyond the […]