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Global Water Challenge & Cargill expand partnership across 5 Continents
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Wednesday, 11 September, 2024, 14 : 00 PM [IST]
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Washington DC
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During World Water Week 2024, Global Water Challenge (GWC) and Cargill announced the expansion of their current partnership platform with a renewed investment of over $5 million over three years and new plans to tackle water-related challenges in communities and basins across five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Its supports community health and livelihoods, promotes watershed health and advances water security around the world.
In its second phase, the partnership platform will build upon these achievements and continue to focus on prioritising solutions that deliver multiple benefits, including increasing access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), building climate change resilience, improving farmer livelihoods and empowering women, while also supporting watershed health and sustainable agriculture initiatives in water-stressed regions.
It uses a context-based approach designed to address the specific water needs of each region, including water access, availability and quality issues within priority communities or basins. This work supports the company’s ambition of enabling a water-positive impact across its operations, supply chains, and communities by 2030, with an emphasis on improving access to safe drinking water in priority communities around the world.
Since it launched in 2021, the partnership platform has positively impacted more than 135,000 people with improved WASH access across 68 communities in Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana and Ivory Coast. It has built a solid foundation and is on track to benefit over 150,000 people by the end of 2024, significantly contributing to its goal of facilitating access to safe drinking water and sanitation for 500,000 people by 2030.
Monica Ellis, Global Water Challenge CEO, said, “As water challenges around the world increase, we are making a positive impact through our catalytic partnership with Cargill. Addressing the complex nature of varying water issues in different regions requires specifically tailored and localised responses. This World Water Week and beyond, we celebrate Cargill Currents and its continued commitment to providing sustainable solutions that contribute to the safety and resilience of water scarce communities.”
Pilar Cruz, Cargill’s chief sustainability officer, said, “At Cargill, we believe in the power of partnerships to drive meaningful and scalable impact. Through our collaboration with Global Water Challenge, we are expanding our reach to address critical water challenges around the world. Together, we are building resilient and sustainable ecosystems for the future.”
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