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World Water Week

Every year in August, Sightsavers joins organisations around the world to highlight water issues and show why this vital resource is an essential part of our work to save sight.

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World Water Week is an annual event that aims to draw attention to global water issues.

Organised by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), it’s a chance for experts, decision-makers, business innovators and professionals from a range of sectors come together for a conference in Sweden.

During the week, they network, exchange ideas and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges in the world today.

Water for everyone

Each year, World Water Week has a different theme. The aim is to make people think about how important water is for prosperity, health and wellbeing, and how we can ensure everyone, wherever they live, can access it.

Young girl washing her hands with water poured from a teapot by her father.

When is World Water Week?

The event is held every year in Stockholm in late August or early September. For updates, visit the World Water Week website.

Why is World Water Week important to Sightsavers?

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Water helps to save sight

Water is vital to ensure good hygiene and cleanliness, which help to prevent eye diseases such as trachoma. As part of our work to fight trachoma, we improve access to water and sanitation facilities across the world.
Learn how WASH initiatives help eliminate disease

Shamima holds Toha while they play together.

Promoting water equality for all

World Water Week aims to ensure everyone can access clean water. This aligns with Sightsavers’ ethos of equality for everyone: we advocate for marginalised groups so everybody has an equal chance in life.
More about our inclusive health work

How water is changing lives

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Why water matters: insights from an NTD expert

To mark World Water Week, Sightsavers technical director Geordie Woods explains how water is vital to prevent disease and save sight.
Kebby using the tippy tap outside his home.

The tippy tap: a vital tool to stop disease

This simple tool allows people to wash their hands and faces in areas where there is no running water. Sightsavers is helping people to build tippy taps in their communities.
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How superheroes are teaching students about good hygiene

Our Super School of 5 project in Africa introduces five superhero cartoon characters to encourage school children to wash their hands and faces.

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