Our Partners: U.S. Water Partnership
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With our support, the USWP has identified five countries—Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Somaliland and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—to accelerate the delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The initiative plans to positively impact more than 200,000 people.
We also are supporting the USWP’s efforts to promote water security in South Asia, where the partnership is focused on the development of tools for early detection systems and helping address significant data and information gaps.
The U.S. Water Partnership is a U.S.-based public-private partnership established to unite American expertise, knowledge, and resources, and mobilize those assets to address water challenges around the globe, especially in the developing world. The USWP was inspired by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2010 World Water Day speech in which she pledged to bring American diplomatic, scientific, private sector and development stakeholders together to address global water challenges.