Our mandate is to support local service providers around the world to deliver affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services to poor people in urban communities.
We work with local communities right from the start of every project and the partnership continues throughout the whole process.
WSUP is itself a partnership – between public, private and civil society organisations – and provides a new model that engages businesses and communities to achieve real, meaningful and practical solutions. It is a not-for-profit organisation.
WSUP’s members each contribute their particular skills and experience, pooling their strengths for greater effectiveness and reach.
WSUP – Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Introducing WSUP
This is one of those problems that seems to be growing faster than is being addressed. I’m happy to see orgs like the WSUP are stepping up. I just recently read that the Mekong and Red Rivers in Vietnam and Cambodia are becoming contaminated with arsenic. Mostly poor people live along these rivers…