Water

Safe, clean water is a basic human need. Yet a quarter of the world’s population can’t access it.

MCC is working with local partners in over 45 countries to ensure people have ongoing access to safe, clean water right in their own communities.

Woman filling a Gerry can at a borehole well

Local solutions to global challenges

From training local leaders to building wells, latrines and irrigation systems, MCC supports innovative water solutions that empower communities.

With our partners, MCC has provided over 830,000 people with access to clean water. In the past year alone:

Annual impact reports

56K

individuals provided access to improved water source

201

drinking water systems were built and repaired

315

water harvest irrigation structures were built or repaired

16K

people have a new or improved latrine / sanitation facility

Germaine Kambundi, 46, draws water from a spring which she used before the borehole was drilled in her village.

Every drop counts

When a community digs a well, girls no longer need to walk hours each day to collect water. When farmers have tools to adapt to a changing climate, their crops can survive even when no rain falls.

The gift of water brings lasting change to communities.

Give the gift of water today

$35

buys a rainwater storage tank

$60

buys irrigation pipes for a drought-prone farm

$100

provides repairs for a school water system

$6,000

is the average cost of a new well

Water stories

From our partners in Bolivia to Kenya to Cambodia, the story is the same: As weather patterns change, so do availability and quality of water in their communities.

Hear from people facing — and adapting to — profound shifts in their lands and livelihoods.