Our news!
Have a look at our news stories & videos below to find out more about how our rainwater harvesting programmes are improving health, reducing poverty, building climate change resilience and freeing girls/women from water procurement...
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 News
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Video from our dugout project in Ghana!
We are proud to have supported our local partner Saha Global to expand and rehabilitate a large water dugout close to the village of Sinsina. Works completed in August 2024 and we’re excited to share a video featuring interviews with Sinsina residents – watch below! The dugout in Sinsina is linked to a small water…
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It’s World Water Week – watch our new video from Nakateete school in Uganda!
August 25 – 29 2024 is World Water Week – to celebrate we are sharing a new video highlighting the impact our work is having in schools in Uganda. We built four rainwater harvesting tanks using ecoblocks at Nakateete Baptist Primary School early this year. We recently filmed teachers and pupils from the school to…
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NBS TV highlights impact of our tanks to schools in Uganda – watch now!
Uganda’s NBS Television visited two schools with our tanks in June 2024! In Uganda we are building rainwater harvesting tanks transforming the lives of 10,000 school children in 22 schools. We have built 47 tanks at nine schools and are raising funds for the remaining 60 tanks at 13 schools – find out more here.…
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Why we harvest rainwater
Many people ask us why at WaterHarvest, we harvest rainwater and why we don’t dig wells, sink boreholes or invest in piped water. The answer is that we believe that small scale rainwater harvesting structures are the best solution for families in the remote, arid and semi-arid areas that we work in. The reasons behind…
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WaterHarvest Annual Review 2023
We are delighted to share our 2022/23 Annual Review. This year we have delivered 3 programmes in India and 2 pilot programmes in Ghana and Kenya. This work included building 156 rainwater harvesting systems, building one sand dam in Kenya and helping to establish 22 micro water businesses in Ghana. We continue to work in…
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News from Ghana, February 2023
We are excited to share an update about our new programme in Ghana! We are delighted to be funding our new partner, Saha Global to set up 22 new water treatment and distribution centres run by local women to supply clean water to remote, rural villages surrounding Dambai and Krachi. The treatment centres will be…
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Impact of chauka from Sambhar, February 2023
The impact of chauka in the words of one farmer ‘I am Kaluram from Balapura village. Right now I’m feeding my animals in pastureland with my cousin Ganesh, in the village where chauka [a system of bunds and trenches to hold the monsoon rain] have been constructed. Grass has been developed in this land after…
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Changing lives in Kutch, December 2022
Damaben Dayabhai Makwana lives in the Wadivistar area of Ratanpar village. She has seven members in her family, who depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Before building a roof rainwater harvesting system, her family used water from nearby ponds during the summer, as the water in the wells used in the winter season is saline…
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News from the Thar Desert, December 2022
Empowerment of women and girls is an important part of our programmes. Water safety training increases health awareness for women and their families. In this programme, all tanks are constructed in the name of the senior women of the household, immediately conferring social status. Our local partner URMUL said that there has been ‘a sea…
