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Water/Sanitation

Water is essential for life, good health and economic development — yet more than one billion people lack access to clean water. Mercy Corps' work fulfills the water needs of vulnerable populations: We pipe clean drinking water to rural communities, help solve resource-based conflicts and deliver water to families during emergencies.

What We're Doing in Haiti ›

Country: Haiti

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

Video: Gathering Around the Well ›

Country: Central African Republic

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

Haiti Response Team ›

Country: Haiti
Mercy Corps has deployed an A-team of humanitarian first responders. These experts from around the world have collective experience that includes responses to the China earthquake (2008), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), and Hurricane Katrina (2005).

Blog Post: Assessing Haiti's precarious water situation ›

Country: Haiti

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

Blog Post: Getting water to survivors ›

Country: Haiti

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 ›

Country: Indonesia

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? ›

Country: Indonesia

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  ›

Country: Somalia

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

Blog Post: Restoring the flow ›

Country: Indonesia

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.

Blog Post: Before the fire ›

Country: Indonesia

Before tragedy struck at noon on Sunday, Penjaringan — a poor slum in the north of Jakarta — was vibrant and bustling with activity.

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