Latin American Stories, from Latin American Filmmakers: Solutions Inside Out, Season Two
What happens when skilled visual storytellers and inspiring nonprofits from the same regions come together to document positive change in their communities? As an ongoing collaboration between the Video Consortium and…
Urgent Need of Our Time: Mission-Aligned Investments in Clean Water Combat Both COVID-19 and Climate Change
Climate change threatens the global water supply, particularly within lesser developed countries and emerging markets that have seen decades-long shortages in the investment of clean water infrastructure. With the onset…
Rebuilding to Prepare for the Next Water and Sanitation Crisis
The Covid-19 crisis has been a powerful reminder of the urgent need for improved water, sanitation and hygiene around the world. Particularly for people living in densely populated urban communities,…
Why We Must Tackle the Climate Emergency Through Improved Water Management
Climate change is water change. That's the message for this year's World Water Day, which takes place on Sunday. In the poorest parts of the world, the challenge of climate…
Tara Houska on Building Justice and Equality in Era of Climate Change
In late 2016, Tara Houska called Morton County North Dakota home for six months—she stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the frontlines at Oceti Sakowin, the gathering of Indigenous Nations at Standing Rock…
How Five Dangerous Myths Keep Water and Sanitation from 883 Million People
What does it mean to give one person access to clean water or safe sanitation? For them and their family, it means the world: dignity, health, more time to work, study,…
How Big Data Helps Ma Jun Fight for Blue Skies and Clean Rivers in China
Long before he founded the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), Ma Jun was a trailblazing investigative environmental journalist in China. His groundbreaking reporting on the mounting environmental crisis…
Our Vision for a 21st Century Water Service Provider
There’s nothing more important to human life than clean, reliable water. It’s the first, and most basic of needs, something we cannot live without for more than a few days.…
How to Spend a Billion Bucks? The Global Water Crisis
How would you spend a billion dollars? Gary White knows what he will do. The Water.org CEO and co-founder says his organization has reached the $1 billion milestone in its…
Bloodiest Year on Record (Again) for Environmental Defenders
It was nearly noon on an early December day when the shooting started. The small indigenous community near Lake Sebu in the Philippines had again come under attack. "The soldiers came…
How to Get to SDG 6: Invisible Barriers to Urban Water and Sanitation
What do you think of when you think about improving water and sanitation? No doubt the first thing that springs to mind is a tap; probably followed close after by…
Designing for Resilience in an Era of Water Stress
Erratic rainfall, extreme droughts and floods, and deterioration in water quality brought on by climate change will intensify existing water stress and water allocation challenges. By 2025, absolute water scarcity…
Our Commitment to Urgent Climate Action
From water resource management and food production, to disease and conflict: climate change exacerbates underlying vulnerabilities. As the severity of these impacts increase over the coming decades, poor communities in…
How Public Private Partnerships are Making a Crappy Market Safe Across Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, nearly half of 55 million urban residents lack the sanitation infrastructure to properly process human waste. The result: massive amounts of raw waste is unsafely dumped, fouling the…
EcoPeace Middle East and a Breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian Water Deal
A water deal between Israelis and Palestinians reached earlier this month will ease the chronic shortages that have threatened to become a public health risk for the Palestinian people, particularly…
Reflections From Standing Rock
At the Skoll Foundation much of the work we support—and the stories we seek to tell—has to do with organizations and movements seeking to protect the environment and indigenous land…
