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By the Bucket - The Facts

Heavy drinker: agriculture uses 70 percent of available worldwide groundwater. 20 percent flow into industries, 10 percent to private households.

The growing world population and the increase of resource-intensive lifestyles are contributing to water scarcity. Particularly affected are MENA (Middle East and North Africa), China and India

Over 840 Million people are undernourished. Approximately 4,600 litres of water per day are necessary to provide the energy requirements of ca. 3,000 calories per person per day.

Sustainable and guaranteed nutrition for every person requires efficiency in production, sufficiency in lifestyles, and the stability of long-term secured fresh water use.

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Streaming - The Videos

Martin Fisher - social entrepreneur and co-founder of Kickstart International, tells in an interview how an irrigation pump has benefited the life of a Kenyan woman.

Deep Water – The Experts

They are everything but still: Our experts share their experience from the field.

Dr. Lena Partzsch, water expert from the work group GETIDOS (“Getting things done sustainably”) at Greifswald University, provides a situation update and challenges users to do some serious rethinking. Read more...

Filtered – The Case Studies

The areas affected by water problems vary radically, as do their solutions.

Tread at the bottom, pump at the top: The Money Maker Irrigation Pump from the organisation Kickstart sounds enticing. Almost 100,000 small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa have already invested in the technology. Rightly so? Read more...

Work like an Egyptian: exploitative working conditions can be reduced through a combination of educational and health measures. That’s what SEKEM is doing. Read more...

To improve groundwater levels, the Indian initiative “Barefoot College” uses rainwater. Other lands are now adopting this exemplary model. Read more...

FEATURED PROJECTS

  • Rainwater for fruit and vegetable cultivation

    Rainwater for fruit and vegetable cultivation
    Location: Nakuru District, Kenya

    The use of rainwater allows small family-run farms in Kenya to vary their crops and increase their earnings. This especially helps small farms in drought-prone regions to acquire a solid economic foundation.

  • Green Desert Peru e.V.

    Green Desert Peru e.V.
    Location: grocio prado, Peru

    Support the village of Nuevo Ayacucho, to help them to help themselves improve their living situations by, for example, generating humus from organic waste.

  • Clean Water for Kenya

    Clean Water for Kenya
    Location: Mwingi, Kenya

    1 Elementary school will get access to clean drinking water by building a roof-raintrap.


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