World population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Already, 783 million people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion lack adequate sanitation facilities.
With today’s urgency to solve safe water issues, there is too much emphasis on immediate reactions and short-term fixes. Sustainable water and sanitation solutions require time, creativity, and innovation. Let’s work together to build a lasting future.
Join Water For People in championing a new movement.
The Everyone | Forever Commitment
From ambitious missions to real, strategic implementation, Everyone allows all people everywhere to:
- Access clean, safe water
- Keep water flowing and latrines useful
- Identify and maintain new, sustainable solutions
Water For People’s initiative, Everyone Forever, is unique in its scope and ambition.
Using these principles and working together, we can help shift the international water and sanitation development sector to achieve more impactful outcomes.
Reaching Everyone
We won’t rest until every family, every school, and every health clinic in the areas we work has access to improved water and sanitation. There are no exceptions to Everyone.
Leveraging Investment
We ensure that investment in development is shared among the local government, the community, and other partners to address current as well as future challenges of water systems and services.
Achieving Forever
We look beyond the work of installing hardware—tanks, pipes, pumps, and latrines—and focus on building local knowledge and institutional systems that support water and sanitation services Forever.
Monitoring
We commit to monitoring our work for at least 10 years after project implementation to ensure that communities have functioning water and sanitation services that meet the needs of the people they serve.
Replicating Success
We strive to build upon the momentum of Everyone Forever so that its principles can be adopted by partners throughout the international development sector and governments to create sustainable water and sanitation services at a national level.
Together we will strive to make total access to improved water a permanent reality so that entire nations will never need an international development organization to address their water challenges in the future.
Join us in working to achieve Everyone Forever.
By joining the Everyone, Forever movement below, you:
- Accept that water poverty is a global problem that will not be solved without you.
- Believe in the Everyone principles as the solution.
- Commit individually and/or organizationally to playing a role in Everyone.
