Gifts that keep on giving

By purchasing a Gift of Water, you’ll be helping people around the world access clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. Without all three, people can’t live dignified, healthy lives. With your help, we can make this happen. Give a Gift of Water today.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Gifts made through Gifts of Water are donations to WaterAid. Gifts of Water is a symbolic giving program where the values and gifts items described are representative of our many clean water and sanitation projects the countries where we work. 

The price of each gift item is an average of different water, sanitation and hygiene related costs from some of our country programs. All hardware and software components of WaterAid projects vary and fluctuate according to local market trends, location and availability. Prices vary considerably between countries and even by regions in each country. In some cases, price points were multiplied to show the amount for more than one item.

WaterAid uses an encryption to protect the transfer of personal and financial information between your browser and our servers. When using WaterAid’s registration and donation pages, a small lock or key symbol in the status bar of your browser indicates that you are connected securely. Personal information and financial transactions are stored on our secured database server. Stringent security guidelines are in place to protect this data, and its use and release. For all other questions regarding privacy and how personal information is governed and managed by WaterAid please contact us at 1-800-370-5658.

When you purchase a Gift of Water, you are making a donation to WaterAid Canada. This makes you eligible for an official receipt for income tax purposes. Once you have completed your purchase, we will issue a tax receipt in your name. It is sent to you electronically within moments of completing the purchase.

Providing your email address allows us to reduce our costs, eliminates tax-receipt errors, and ensures that you get your electronic tax receipt immediately. WaterAid respects your privacy. We will not release any donor information to outside sources under any circumstances.

Yes! You can make more than one Gift of Water at a time. Simply add up the total gift amount and type that number into the ‘Other Amount’ field. In the comment section, please list which items you have chosen to gift to ensure that we have them correctly identified.

Gifts of Water makes the perfect gift for all holidays – from Halloween to Chanukah to Christmas and Mother’s Day. They are also a meaningful way to celebrate special occasions, such as weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries, or to give any time.