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Water is essential for life, good health and economic development - yet more than one billion people lack access to clean water. Each year, millions are embroiled in conflicts over its scarce availability.

Mercy Corps' work fulfills the water needs of vulnerable populations, from piping drinking water to rural communities to solving resource-based conflicts to ensuring that people have access to drinking water in the most devastating emergencies.

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Chandra Lama helped build and repair more than 60 toilets in Darjeeling, India, preventing waste from contaminating the area's scarce supply of clean water.

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Quenching the Thirst of Goats

BY MARTA COLBURN

A Mercy Corps program encouraging water savings is helping goat herders in Jordan's central highlands.

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Saving Water in an Arid Paradise

BY SA'ED SHANNAK

Throughout Jordan, Mercy Corps awards grants to more than 70 community-based organizations for household water savings and efficiency projects.

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Clean Water and a Fresh Start

BY TOM EWERT

Mercy Corps' work to install new drinking-water sources is setting the stage for Liberia's growth and contributing to national reconciliation, sometimes in surprising ways.

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