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Beach lovers can feel great and look fantastic in H&M’s new WaterAid bikini. Ten percent of the money spent on this summer essential will go directly to WaterAid. - 24 April 2008
WaterAid is seeking entries from British filmmakers between the ages of 12 and 16 for the chance to win a filming trip to Tanzania. - 20 April 2008
Ten year old Olivia Revans swam a mile in aid of WaterAid. Her original fundraising target was £100, but thanks to her hard efforts, she has so far raised twenty times as much! - 22 April 2008
Hunter Boot is producing an exciting limited-edition WaterAid welly for Glastonbury 2008. - 14 April 2008
A musician with polio, who has dedicated his life to campaigning for clean water and sanitation, has been awarded the world’s most notable environmental prize for grassroots activists. - 13 April 2008
WaterAid's place on Google Earth's awareness layer, a powerful new programme to help charities reach ten of millions of people around the world, has been unveiled. - 10 April 2008
A new WaterAid report highlights blockages that stand in the way of development money reaching those with responsibility for delivering services in developing countries. - 8 April 2008
Read WaterAid Chief Executive Barbara Frost's blog post on The Guardian's website - 25 March 2008
WaterAid's Head of the East Africa Region, Lydia Zigomo, spoke to Jenni Murray from Woman's Hour about sanitation, the last taboo. - 19 March 2008
Tap into WaterAid is a simple, inspired way for restaurants, cafes, bars and their customers to help bring water to the 1.1 billion people worldwide who have no access to safe drinking water. - 13 March 2008
WaterAid is teaming up with The Guardian newspaper and seven other development organisations to launch a unique journalism competition. - 10 March 2008
Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Masahiko Koumura, commits his Government to putting sanitation and water firmly on the G8 agenda. - 27 February 2008
WaterAid is delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has agreed to extend his Presidency of WaterAid for a further five-year period. - 22 February 2008
Celebrated on 8 March, International Women's Day is a global day of recognition and celebration of women throughout the world. - 25 February 2008
On 18 February WaterAid launched a new report, Giving sanitation the green light, as representatives from African governments, the private sector, NGOs and multilateral development organisations gathered at AfricaSan. - 18 February 2008
On Saturday 18 October, thousands of people will be taking part in ceilidhs up and down the country in support of WaterAid. - 14 February 2008
The UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon spoke out at Davos warning the private sector of the 'looming water crisis'. - 1 February 2008
WaterAid welcomes Margaret Batty as our new Policy and Campaigns Director. - 31 January 2008
WaterAid's head of communications, Nick Edmans, appears on Peter Tatchell's online discussion show to discuss the water and sanitation crisis. - 25 January 2008
WaterAid is delighted to announce it has become the 21st member of NetHope, an information technology consortium of leading NGOs specialising in humanitarian relief, emergency response and conservation. - 14 February 2008
Recent flooding in southern Africa has caused problems for WaterAid projects in Zambia. - 18 January 2008
The UN have declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation - WaterAid explains the issues at a press briefing. - 8 January 2008
BBC London presenter Asad Ahmad is gearing up to run the 2008 London Marathon for WaterAid. - 14 December 2007
WaterAid welcomes the publication of this years Human Development Report 2007/2008, Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world, with its strong focus on the risks that climate change presents for the world's poorest. - 28 November 2007
HRH Prince Charles took time out from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to visit the work of international charity WaterAid in the Kawempe area of the Kampala slums in Uganda. Prince Charles is President of WaterAid. - 22 November 2007
WaterAid hopes that the UN’s International Year of Sanitation will help position the crisis in sanitation more prominently on the global agenda by raising the issue’s profile with politicians, civil society, the media and the general public. - 21 November 2007
Today is World Toilet Day and to highlight the fact that 40% of the world’s population do not have a safe place to go to the toilet, WaterAid has released a series of four viral films featuring open defecation in London. - 19 November 2007
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