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 remote communities, where climate change greatly affects the vulnerable communities who are still lacking access to a source of clean water close to their homes or schools.

In January, we reached our 36th year and we are immensely grateful to all those who support us. With your help, over the last 36 years, WaterHarvest has directly supported over two million people, worked in 2,048 villages, and built structures to harvest 1.41 billion litres of rainwater annually. Our income this year was £388,690, 4% above last year’s level.

As you will see in the ‘Future Plans’ section of the Annual Review, some of the pilots in Africa are expanding into larger programmes and we are also working with a new partner in Uganda building water harvesting tanks in schools.  

We firmly believe that taking our time to find the right path forward is ensuring the greatest impact for our donors’ funds. We look forward to the year ahead and thank you for your continued support.

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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.

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  • Our Annual Review for 2024/25

    We are pleased to share our latest Annual Review for April 2024 – March 2025. We report much success with our on-going rainwater harvesting programmes in Uganda, Ghana and our final programme in India.  We continue to work in remote locations, where climate change greatly affects communities still lacking access to a source of clean water close to their homes or schools.…

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  • We complete our dugout project in Tacpuli, Ghana

    In remote regions of Ghana year round streams are rare and ground water is often inaccessible, so communities collect rainwater in dugouts but these are now drying out for several months at a time due to climate change. This means villagers, especially women and young girls have to walk very long distances to find often…

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