Water/Sanitation

What We're Doing in Haiti ›

The Mercy Corps response is currently focused on immediate humanitarian needs: water and sanitation, trauma support and job creation.

Haiti Response Team ›

Video: Gathering Around the Well ›

Bouar, one of the largest cities in Central African Republic, has no running water.

Blog Post: Assessing needs in a forgotten neighborhood ›

Yesterday I accompanied our water expert Mugur Dumitrache yesterday to a Port-au-Prince shantytown that Mugur has described as "not even being on any map."

Blog Post: Assessing Haiti's precarious water situation ›

Today I am out visiting spontaneous camps of families displaced from their homes to determine their water situation.

Blog Post: Getting water to survivors ›

Yesterday I spoke with Mugur Dumitrache, Mercy Corps' water and sanitation expert and one of eight expert emergency responders who left for Haiti to help earthquake survivors.

Blog Post: The hands that rock the cradle ›

Yoyo Maesaroh takes care of three children and all her housework while also leading efforts to clean up her neighborhood in West Jakarta.

Blog Post: Can you spare a square? ›

I didn’t expect my first blog post from the field to be about sanitation. I thought maybe microfinance or agriculture programs or mobile commerce.

Blog Post: Water flows again for a Somaliland community  ›

Mercy Corps recently restored water services to a village where flooding had washed away the water-delivery systems.

Blog Post: Restoring the flow ›

Electricity is back up and the cell phones are mostly working again, but there is still no running water in Padang city. Mercy Corps is helping address that problem.