Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Sharing in a Worldwide Problem

For more than fifty years, world leaders have recognized the direct link between poverty and the lack of clean water, which is as fundamental to life as food or air. Yet an alarming number of people struggle to get the water they need to make it through the day.

In developing countries, the lack of safe water and sanitation is staggering. More than 1 billion men, women, and children are without access to sufficient clean water, and more than 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation. These individuals, despite their best efforts, remain at risk every day for potentially deadly diseases. Although the problem is global, it remains particularly acute in Africa, where over 57 percent of the rural population does not ...