WellDone!

Allow us to introduce you to a great water charity - WellDone who are ‘working to raise awareness on global water issues and providing clean water for communities in the developing world.’ Their wonderful team is made up of energetic young individuals who began work in 2007 to achieve one simple goal: ‘to drill one well in one village in Ghana’. Once they achieved their first milestone, they moved on to several others - eventually, providing water to over fifty different communities in the developing world. 

Pop over to their website to show them some love and support! 

#ThirstyThursday GiveMeTap loves you!

It’s been a while since we expressed our love and appreciation and gratitude and every synonym you can find in the dictionary for the words THANK YOU but we really really mean it! THANK YOU all for your generous support, we can’t do anything without you guys and you have been our rocks throughout this journey! GiveMeTap loves you! 

Keep the support going to keep GiveMeTap going! 

Lots of love,

GiveMeTap Team x

#ThirstyThursday Heavy rainfall in Drought

11 flood warnings have been put in place in the same regions declared in Drought. A little ironic? UK weather can be very unpredictable and baffling at the same time! April 2012 has been one of the wettest April’s in history, yet the water hosepipe ban is still in place. “The wettest drought in history” - might sum this irony up. 

Happy showers everyone!

#ThirstyThursday - 99 Days To Go

Time sure does fly! It seems like yesterday when London was declared as the host of the 2012 games. We are only 99 days away from the Olympics!!! That means, we need to get moving so that we have refill points all around the stadium for you guys! What we need from you all is to send in names of cafes you would like to have as Water Heroes and we’ll call them up and have your new tap point set up in your favourite location! Name one, name two or name a hundred! We’re all ears :)

#ThirstyThursday - Water For You, Water For Everyone

Isn’t it strange, two thirds of the Earth is made up of water. Yet billions go without water on a daily basis. Salty water or no salty water, providing correct mechanisms to filter this water should be in place in all parts of the world. We as a worldwide community need to come together to make this happen. 

Join GiveMeTap and buy a bottle to help provide Water For You. Water For Everyone.

Life Inspiring Quotes

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, its the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead.

“Successful people make a habit of doing what unsuccessful people don’t want to do.” - Thomas Edison.

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind”. - Christian Larson.

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly.”

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we’re taught.”

#ThirstyThursday Water Ban

The UK is facing one of the driest two-year periods on record which has led to water authorities placing a ban on water hosepipe usage in southern and eastern England. Anyone violating this ban could face a fine of up to £1,000. 

GiveMeTap supports Directgov’s tips on how to save water:

#ThirstyThursday Who Is The World Water Council?

So why does GiveMeTap talk about the World Water Council so regularly in their blog posts? Let’s take a look at who the Council actually is.

On the initiative of renowned water specialists and international organisations, in 1996, the World Water Council was born which is an international multi-stakeholder platform and focuses on addressing world water issues.

Their mission is “to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all levels, including the highest decision-making level, to facilitate the efficient conservation, protection, development, planning, management and use of water in all of its dimensions on all environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit of all life on Earth.” 

The Council provides a platform to promote exchanges of experience and debates to reach a common strategic vision on water resource allocation and water services management. To help achieve this objective, they initiate activities whose results converge towards its flagship product: the World Water Forum.

More on World Water Day

The Millenium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, has been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Over 2 billion people gained access to improved water sources between 1990 and 2010. “It’s definitely encouraging to see that, globally, we’re making so much progress. But, of course, it will take a lot of effort by all the stakeholders involved to really make an impact at a grassroots level and to demonstrate that those people most in need are also benefiting from this global progress,” was the statement from an Executive Director of an NGO.

During emergencies, schools become the shelters for internally displaced people. For this reason, it is essential that ‘the water and sanitation facilities have the capacity to absorb high demand and that children are trained in sanitary practices, particularly in natural disaster-prone countries.’ The biggest challenge however to meeting the sanitation targets is that discussing sanitation is viewed as taboo in many communities.

UNICEF advisor said that “it’s really important to continue to celebrate the success that we have achieved - the goal on water - so that sanitation is more recognised, but also build on our advocacy efforts so that the ministries of education, so that the ministries of health and water, work hand-in-hand to achieve universal access to WASH facilities and good hygiene promotion in schools, so that all children can grow with privacy dignity to their full potential”.