Rotary Sydney - Creating Hope for Communities, Water a basic human need

Rotarians Russell and Deb Brown have been actively engage in WASH projects in Nepal. Join us as they share uplifting stories of the tremendous and far-reaching impacts of these projects on the children, their families and the communities benefitting from the generosity of Rotarians.

Water is the most basic of human needs. Many villages in Nepal are without adequate, reliable and clean supplies of water, particularly during the dry seasons and with the increasing demands of agriculture, tourism, growing populations and today’s understanding of improved hygiene standards. 

This burden of water shortages falls mainly on women and girls. The provision of clean water has a positive impact on the village social system improving general health, education, maternal and child health, sanitation, hygiene, disease prevention, community and economic development.