This selected material from Hesperian's Community Guide to Environmental Health explains how to improve drinking water sources, treat water as a right for all people, make it safe for drinking, and organize water projects to improve community health in 46 pages. This booklet provides tools, knowledge, and inspiration for health promoters, educators, community leaders, and ordinary people. Featuring drawings to make messages clear and actionable, this book contains:
activities to stimulate critical thinking, promote discussion, help make decisions, and resolve conflict inspiring stories of communities and regular people mobilizing for change methods for improving community water sources including rainwater collection and safe water storageUseful for people just beginning to address environmental health threats, as well as people with many years of experience in the field, this resource was developed in consultation with organizations around the world, ensuring its appropriateness and usefulness for a variety of cultures and circumstances.