Marshall Islands honored for ‘water for all’ accomplishment

MAJURO — The Marshall Islands was called to honor Saturday night for becoming only the second country in the world to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of “clean water for all.”

An all-volunteer women’s organization in the Marshall Islands was credited for spearheading a five-year project to provide simple water filtration systems for home use to every family in this watery nation of low-lying coral islands.

The Marshall Islands is the second, behind Liberia, to deliver on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal number six to provide clean water to every resident, said Darrel Larson, Director of Sawyer International, the maker of the portable filtration systems that partnered with the Kora In Okrane or KIO Club in support of the water project.

KIO Club hosted a dinner Saturday night in Majuro to celebrate completing the nationwide program of delivering the home water filtration systems to over 8,000 households in the Marshall Islands, as well as training islanders in their use and maintenance.

KIO Club President Angeline Heine-Reimers said the success of this five-year program was the partnership with multiple government ministries, other NGOs and the private sector. She said it was a difficult task given the logistics of ocean travel to remote and sparsely populated islands.

Learn more about this project, written by Giff Johnson here.

फोटो थंबनेल ब्लॉग लेखक
लेखक
गिफ जॉनसन

I started out as a newsletter writer/editor for the Micronesia Support Committee from 1975-1984. During this time, I was also a freelance writer for various magazines. I started as a newspaper reporter with the Marshall Islands Journal in December 1984 and had my first byline story in the paper in the December 28, 1984 edition. By the end of March, 1985 I was named editor of the weekly newspaper, a position I have held since that time except for a couple of periods of about a year in the early- and mid-1990s.

दस्ते से

हमारे समुदाय के साथ कैम्प फायर वार्तालाप, स्क्वाड सदस्यों और राजदूतों से लेकर ब्रांड पार्टनर्स और सॉयर टीम तक।

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