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The EU Water Initiative was launched in 2002 to improve the effectiveness of EU aid for water and sanitation. Three years later it has failed to help a single extra person gain access to water and sanitation, and is badly letting down the world’s poorest people. Take action today and write to your MEP.

Focus on Timor-Leste
WaterAid recently expanded its operations to help provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to a total of 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region. Timor-Leste is one of our newest country programmes where we are implementing gravity fed water systems and pour flush latrines.

Taking charge in Takkas
For as long as anyone can remember, the women of Takkas, in Nigeria's mountainous Plateau state, collected water from a river nearly an hour's walk away. Suzanna Tuwan explains the positive changes that have taken place since WaterAid began working in her community.

Hilary Benn visits Dhaka’s slums
Hilary Benn, British Secretary of State for International Development, was welcomed to a project in Dhaka which has helped to establish communal self-managed water points and sanitation blocks, and to develop a good understanding of safe hygiene.

One development opportunity leads to another in Nepal
WaterAid's partner organisation Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) has been working to improve the living standard of communities in Nepal's rural Eastern Region through safe water, health and sanitation services. The results have been striking, producing a number of knock-on benefits.