Helping Communities in West Africa
By taking the Clean Water Challenge quiz, you can help provide clean drinking water in communities facing some of the most severe poverty and health challenges in the world.
For each correct answer, the American Chemistry Council, with support from the World Chlorine Council and individual companies, will contribute $0.20, up to a total of $200,000. Twenty cents is the cost of five chlorine tablets designed to disinfect 100 liters of water. With your help, we can contribute enough to disinfect 100 million liters of household drinking water.
These contributions will support efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other partners to implement household water programs in Ghana, Niger and Mali as part of the West Africa Water Initiative. Using chlorine-based disinfection and safe water storage techniques, these programs will reach an estimated 3 million people, helping to reduce disease and improve quality of life.
Household Water Chlorination Helps Save Lives
According to World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, simple methods for treating water at home and storing it in safe containers can help save a huge number of lives each year While the ultimate goal should be safe water piped to every home, household water programs offer an effective and immediate solution, potentially benefiting more than 1 billion people who rely on water from unsafe sources.
Each year, nearly two million people, mostly children under the age of five, die from diarrheal disease caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene. A growing body of research demonstrates that household disinfection, along with safe water storage and hygiene behavior interventions, can reduce the number of diarrheal disease episodes in vulnerable populations by 50 percent. A recent report published by WHO concludes that household-based chlorination is the most cost-effective way to improve water quality and reduce this disease burden.
Helping Communities in West Africa
These contributions will support efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other partners to implement household water programs in Ghana, Niger and Mali as part of the West Africa Water Initiative. Using chlorine-based disinfection and safe water storage techniques, these programs will reach an estimated 3 million people, helping to reduce disease and improve quality of life.
Each year, nearly two million people, mostly children under the age of five, die from diarrheal disease caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene. A growing body of research demonstrates that household disinfection, along with safe water storage and hygiene behavior interventions, can reduce the number of diarrheal disease episodes in vulnerable populations by 50 percent. A recent report published by WHO concludes that household-based chlorination is the most cost-effective way to improve water quality and reduce this disease burden.