We harvest rainwater to improve the lives of remote communities
We are UK charity and for almost 40 years we’ve worked originally in India and now Ghana & Uganda to harvest rainwater urgently needed to improve health, reduce poverty, build climate change resilience and free girls/women from water procurement. To date we’ve worked in over 2000 villages helping 2.3 million people.
WaterHarvest to close in 2027, our 40th Anniversary year. Although this is sad news, our anniversary feels like an appropriate milestone to bring the charity to a close and we have much to celebrate from our four decades of rainwater harvesting. Find out more here.
OUR CURRENT PROJECTS:
School Rainwater Harvesting in Uganda programmes
Our first multi-year school tanks programme in Uganda completed in July 2025. Work started on our second new programme in November 2025!
107 new tanks built at 22 schools. Now building 37 tanks at 10 schools.
Supported by our local NGO partner.
First programme provided clean water to over 10,000 pupils & staff.
Dugout rehabilitation in Ghana
Expansion and rehabilitation of large water dugouts supplying clean drinking water. In recent years these have been drying out for several months per annum due to climate change.
Keeping the dugouts & their treatment centres open all year round
Supported by our local NGO partner
Regular supply of water from kiosks run by local women
Latest news
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WaterHarvest to close in 2027
This is an important update from the Chair of WaterHarvest’s Board of Trustees, Fiona Beukes: Like other UK charities, WaterHarvest has a Board of Trustees (the Board) who act as the governing body, with legal and financial responsibility for the charity. The Board determines strategic direction, with operational leadership of the charity delegated to the…
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Our third dugout is complete in Ghana
With the support of the local community, our new dugout in Kanjiyili completed in March 2026. Kanjiyili is a small rural village in the North-East Gonja District, home to 221 people. Its only source of water—a seasonal dugout—dries up each year around March, leaving the community without local water access for an average of four…
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Our new school tanks programme is progressing well
We are very pleased to report that by the end February 2026, we had completed two phases of our new programme – bringing much needed water to almost 4,000 pupils in five schools in the Masaka region! Many thanks to everyone who has donated towards our work in Uganda, we are really grateful for your support.
