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Safe Water Now: 2025 in Review
Unsafe water causes over 1 million preventable deaths annually, with diarrheal disease ranking among the leading causes of death for children under five. Point-of-use water treatment through chlorination can reduce under-five mortality by around 20%, yet coverage remains critically low in most low-resource settings.
In 2025, we continued reaching millions with safe water across Africa and Asia, and helped shape how India defines and delivers water treatment at national scale.
In India, our partnership helped catalyze a critical shift — from building pipes to ensuring the water flowing through them is safe to drink. As a technical partner at both national and state levels, we helped install in-line chlorination devices while building government capacity to adopt and sustain the program. If chlorination becomes a nationwide priority, the systems we are testing could deliver safe drinking water to tens of millions of people.
In Africa, we deepened partnerships with water infrastructure providers in Malawi and Uganda, layering chlorination onto existing piped systems to bring safe water to tens of thousands more people in 2025. Here is what that means to one family:
"Children weren't healthy because the water wasn't pure. We had to take the children to the hospital frequently due to vomiting and diarrhea. They couldn't attend school regularly. The chlorinated water has made a significant difference. Everyone is safe, the children are attending school regularly, and the adults are also doing well at home."
— Farzana, Mother, Jawali
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