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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

Mercy Corps’ team of emergency response experts is working to meet survivors’ immediate needs – water, food, shelter, hygiene – while laying the foundation for long-term recovery and self-sufficiency.

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).

Video:  Gathering Around the Well ›

Country: Central African Republic

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

Special Report:  Keep making a difference for Haiti ›

Country: Haiti

It’s been two months now since an earthquake shattered Haiti, claimed more than 200,000 lives and displaced more than a million people.

Blog Post:  Spring of hope: EPES provides emergency water to earthquake survivors ›

Country: Chile

Within 24 hours of the earthquake — and still unable to locate several of its staff members— EPES, Mercy Corps' local partner in Chile, was in action.

Blog Post:  In Chile, hard work and messages of hope ›

Country: Chile

Concepción felt like a war zone. When we arrived last Thursday — five days after the earthquake struck — an 18-hour curfew was in place and the military was posted throughout the city.

Blog Post:  Let the children enjoy the world ›

Country: Indonesia

I’m proud of what we're doing to support children in Haiti because during disasters, children are the ones who suffer most from trauma and need something to help them heal.

Blog Post:  Assessing needs in a forgotten neighborhood ›

Country: Haiti

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 ›

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.

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