WaterAid is an international charity dedicated to helping people escape from poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation.
WaterAid works in Malawi helping to improve poor people's access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene through practical, sustainable projects and influence district, local and national government to invest effectively in these services.
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In Malawi WaterAid is concentrating on rehabilitating existing water systems rather than building new ones...
Factfile
Area: 118,480km²
Capital: Lilongwe
Other main cities:
Blantyre, Mzimba, Salima, Nkhotakota, Machinga
Population: 14.8m
Child deaths (under five) from diarrhoea per annum: 9,100
Water supply coverage: 80%
Sanitation coverage: 56%
NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage. Sources: World Bank (2010) World Development Indicators, UNICEF (2010) State of the World's Children 2009 and WHO (2010) World Health Statistics 2010, WHO / UNICEF (2010) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report 2010, UNDP (2009) Human Development Report 2010.