Water
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Photo: Sean Sheridan for Mercy Corps
Water is the source of life — but when it's not properly managed, can breed disease, create conflict and destroy communities. Mercy Corps works to provide access to clean water around the world, whether it's bringing relief during droughts or rebuilding wells in remote villages. We also help people learn proper sanitation, improve distribution and irrigation, and strengthen communities against flooding.
All stories about Water
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DR Congo: Fighting the cholera epidemic in emergency camps February 6, 2012
Cholera is raging across the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the last year, more than 22,000 people have been infected – 1,600 of those in the last four weeks alone.
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Yemen: Assessing needs in Yemen December 28, 2011
Veteran aid workers Richard Jaquot and Mugur Dumitrache recently visited Yemen to assess the prospects for helping supply water, provide work opportunities, and support the psychosocial needs of communities impacted by the country's mulitple crises.
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Haiti: Ensuring the water is clean December 5, 2011
Mercy Corps is distributing vouchers for clean water, checking water quality and distributing soap in Port-au-Prince camps.
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Kenya: Pressing for time October 3, 2011
All day long, as the heat swelled to a punishing bake, gray clouds teased a promise of rain. But no rain came. In Wajir town and the surrounding scrub the landscape is parched: red sand, broken branches, piles of white rocks.
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Pakistan: Filtering water in the flood zone October 2, 2011
We've started to supply clean drinking water to tankers being run by the municipal authorities and local humanitarian organizations in Badin, home to some of the worst flooding in a crisis that has displaced 1.8 million people in Pakistan.
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Somalia: Families still fleeing to Mogadishu seeking food September 27, 2011
Our staff in Mogadishu registered 25 newly arrived households families who had walked for more than three weeks to reach Mogadishu, with the hope that they will get something to eat and live on.
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Pakistan: Rains slow, but urgent needs remain September 26, 2011
The rains have mostly stopped for the past week, and we can see some slight decrease in the level of water where we're working — but that's relative. In far too many places, the view is one of a vast lake or river, where there should be none.
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Pakistan: Boy wading through floodwaters in Sindh September 19, 2011
Mercy Corps is responding to flooding in Pakistan's Sindh Province with emergency clean water for over 4,000 displaced families.
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Pakistan: Another year of flooding in Sindh September 15, 2011
After barely getting back on their feet from the historic 2010 floods, Pakistan's monsoon season has deluged the same region again creating a health and housing crisis for over 5 million people according to the UN.
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Somalia: Delivering clean water in Mogadishu September 15, 2011
Mercy Corps is trucking desperately needed water to camps for the displaced in Mogadishu. In response to the outbreak of water-borne diseases, such as cholera, we will also be starting hygiene and sanitation programs in the camps.