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 WaterAid wishes filmmaker Graham Hughes bon voyage as he gets ready for his modern-day Odyssey and world record attempt– to travel across 200 countries in the shortest possible time without flying. - 23 December 2008
 Neil Barron has won London On Tap's competition to design a carafe for tap water. Proceeds from its sale will go to WaterAid. - 1 December 2008
 On this year's World Toilet Day, 19 November, WaterAid and its partners held a series of awareness raising events around the world to highlight that 2.5 billion people live without access to a safe, private toilet. - 27 November 2008
 WaterAid welcomes South Asian governments' unprecedented recognition of access to sanitation and safe drinking water as a basic right. - 24 November 2008
 WaterAid America's new online animated book helps children understand the importance of toilets, safe water and good hygiene. - 21 November 2008
 Documentary Photographer Munem Wasif wins a Prix Pictet Commission to photograph WaterAid projects. - 20 November 2008
 WaterAid joined grassroots organisations from South Asia in a silent candlelit vigil to commemorate the deaths of one million children killed by diarrhoeal diseases. - 17 November 2008
 Representatives from WaterAid and partner organisations are in Delhi for the 2008 South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN). Read the latest updates here. - 19 November 2008
 This World Toilet Day, November 19 2008, WaterAid is aiming to help the 2.5 billion people 40% of the world's population without access to a toilet. - 17 November 2008
 The lights are up and Christmas is nearly here! Make buying your Christmas cards easier this year by shopping online at WaterAids Shop for Life. - 13 November 2008
 Seven WaterAid country programmes joined over 40 nations across the world to mark the first Global Handwashing Day on 15 October. - 11 November 2008
 WaterAid and its partners met in Nairobi to turn commitments, made by African ministers in February to address the sanitation crisis, into reality. - 6 November 2008
 Rapid urbanisation in the developing world is causing a slum crisis that threatens to spiral out of control unless governments take action to address water and sanitation. - 3 November 2008
 More than 116 million people, nearly 2% of the world's population, stood up against poverty during the weekend of 17-19 October 2008. - 23 October 2008
 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said "Water is Life – let us act like we mean it" at the High Level side event on water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal targets. - 25 September 2008
 WaterAid warns of faltering progress towards global education, health and environment goals, because of insufficient recognition of the scale and impact of the water and sanitation crisis. - 25 September 2008
 The Financial Times, the world’s leading provider of business news and analysis in print and on-line, has selected WaterAid for the 2008 FT Seasonal Appeal. - 24 September 2008
 WaterAid Chief Executive, Barbara Frost, addresses the UN at this week’s High Level Event in New York, where WaterAid is calling for a solid commitment to ending the sanitation and water crisis. - 25 September 2008
 WaterAid formerly announces details of the 2008 Annual General Meeting. - 23 September 2008
 WaterAid's latest toilet viral films are to be screened at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on Tuesday, 23 September. - 22 September 2008
 Ian Moxon from Greenwich in London has had the experience of a life-time visiting WaterAid projects in Uganda to find out for himself how money he's raised is being spent. - 19 September 2008
 Tearfund and WaterAid's new report positions political neglect and under-funding of sanitation and water at the heart of Millennium Development Goal failures. - 11 September 2008
 Just two weeks after, creating Madagascar's first Ministry for Water and Sanitation the President of Madagascar, H.E. Marc Ravalomanana spoke at World Water Week in Stockholm. - 19 August 2008
 Read WaterAid Chief Executive Barbara Frost's blog from Stockholm World Water Week. - 19 August 2008
 WaterAid Chief Executive Barbara Frost will join experts from over 140 countries at the conference where she will demand urgent attention be given to the sanitation crisis. - 15 August 2008
 Ecover, the world’s leading manufacturer of ecological cleaning products, has today launched a three-year partnership with WaterAid in Ethiopia. - 27 May 2008
 The G8 have taken the firsts steps in recognising their key role in reducing poverty, thanks to lobbying from WaterAid and End Water Poverty. However they did not deliver on our calls to end the water and sanitation crisis. - 24 July 2008
 The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation published a report last week highlighting the fact that 2.5 billion people, more than 40% of the world’s population, still lack access to improved sanitation. - 23 July 2008
 Commitments from the G8 on health stand to be undermined by a failure to tackle the global sanitation and water crisis. - 8 July 2008
 Find out how WaterAid is lobbying the Japanese Government to put sanitation and water on the agenda at this year's G8 summit. - 7 July 2008
 A recent report looks at how WaterAid is the leading the way with mapping innovations, ensuring that access to water and sanitation reaches those most in need. - 23 June 2008
 WaterAid marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr John Snow in unusual fashion... - 16 June 2008
On Wednesday 2 July WaterAid supporters and staff joined other End Water Poverty campaigners to stage a queue for the toilet outside the Japanese Embassy in London. - 2 July 2008
 Women across the globe have snapped up the conscience-free bikini and helped to raise an impressive £216,202 for WaterAid. - 10 October 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
 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-years. - 22 February 2008
 Recent flooding in southern Africa has caused problems for WaterAid projects in Zambia. - 18 January 2008
 WaterAid's Policy Officer for Sanitation, Oliver Cumming, blogs live from teh AfricaSan 2008 conference in Durban, South Africa. - 18 February 2008
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