HOW: Channeling Water Solutions

Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment’s (ARUWE) Executive Director, Agnes Mirembe, shares her journey and how ARUWE advances women’s rights, climate-smart agriculture, and water access in Uganda. Discover how this local NGO blends personal experience with impactful programs for rural communities. Agnes highlights how water shaped her childhood—and how that experience now shapes her leadership. This...

Meet Dr. Adanech Yared Jillo, founder of the Ethiopian Women in Water Association (EWIWA)—a local organization in Addis Ababa promoting gender equality in Ethiopia’s water sector. Learn how EWIWA empowers women to lead and influence water decision-making through advocacy, policy change, and capacity building. Dr. Jillo shares her journey and why inclusive leadership is critical to sustainable wate...

Join us as we explore how Future for Africa (F4A), a non-profit in Bolgatanga, Ghana, is improving lives through clean water, sanitation, health, and education. Focused on tribal and Fulani nomadic communities, F4A uses the asset-based community development (ABCD) model to turn local strengths into lasting solutions. In this episode, Delwin Bawa Mansur and Samuel Nayang discussed their efforts to...

Join Godliver Businge, the director and Comfort Hajra, program developer from Ugandan Women’s Water Initiative (UWWI), a grassroots organization empowering women and girls as WASH leaders in rural Uganda. Discover how they blend local knowledge, climate resilience, and community mobilization to drive sustainable change. Their work ensures that rural voices are heard and valued in water and sanitat...

Hear from Hermella Wondium (Co-founder) and Elfaz Kassa (Programme Director) of Drop of Water, a youth-led organization tackling Ethiopia’s rural water challenges. From university students to WASH leaders, they now support 150+ clean water projects across the country. They share how passion, volunteering, and community partnerships have fueled their growth and impact. This episode recounts how Her...

With 25 years of experience, Aid for Development (AFORD) supports WASH projects in Northern Ghana. Sumaila Ibrahim, the Executive Director, shares how AFORD builds partnerships, hosts health advocacy events, and strengthens community engagement for lasting water and sanitation solutions. Their long-term presence and local trust make them a cornerstone of WASH development in the region. This episod...

“To value water not based on how much it costs to produce water now… but how much it will cost us to produce the next drop of water from a…

“If you do it well, you find that these politicians are always eager to get this information. Once you equip them with this information, it’s good for them. It’s knowledge…

“I never see any happier impact investors than the people who invest in water. Once you get into it and you actually understand how foundational this is and how weird…

From the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), water experts Kelsey Harpham and Mario Lopez talk us through how ambitious goals like the Paris Agreement develop at climate conferences and…

“In India at least, and of course globally, people are waking up to textile: Where is it being grown? What kind of cloth? Is it? What is the technique? Is…

“A sustainable city finds many, many ways for water to move into the ground” – Erica Gies In this episode, Mexico City-based architect and urban designer Loreta Castro-Reguera and award-winning…

Kennedy Odede is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs.  Kennedy grew up in Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the realities of extreme poverty first hand. While working at a factory, he saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for…

Mohannad is the Founder and Chairman of Life From Water, an international non-profit delivering clean water and agricultural solutions to underserved, rural communities in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. In arid climates with scarce surface water, groundwater is often contaminated with minerals, salts, and at times chemical contaminants from industrial uses. Life From Water develops…

“Our community approach is very simple, but it works really well because we are indigenous here. We understand them. We understand their environment. We understand the language they speak. It helps a lot” Salva Dut is the founder and chief strategy director of the international NGO, Water for South Sudan. The organization delivers sustainable quality-of-life…

“The most important story of our time which is not being told? Is all around water. We’re at this watershed moment, where the UN estimates that in the next decade demand is going to outstrip supply by 40%. So, who owns it? Who’s got the access to it? Who’s got the rights?” Leana Hosea is…

“To be a water diplomat, you need to be a scientist. You need to be an academic. You need to follow the development of science because how can you imagine what the climate change will be doing to us, if you’re not a scientist? And you need to be a diplomat and a politician. Everything.…

“We are talking about the fourth industrial revolution. So that’s the agenda which we are trying to push in Malawi and Africa in general to ensure that we are closing these problems that we’re facing previously–lack of accountability–and also to enhance decision making.”  In some urban areas around Lilongwe, Malawi, water kiosks are the only…