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Heba: Assiut's Water Hero Heba Adel Mohamed is a 29-year-old manager of five waste water pump stations in the Al Quseya district, about 60 km outside of Assiut. She supervises 50 male technicians and laborers and together they are responsible for the waste water services for thousands of residents. She works for the Assiut Potable Water and Sanitation Company, a public service company owned by the Egyptian government, which since 2011 has received over $20 million from USAID/Egypt to fund the construction of nine water and wastewater projects in Assiut.

Tracking Performance at a Water Treatment Plant in Jordan As this Miyahuna/Zai Water Treatment Plant operator demonstrates, the Jordan Water Operators Certification Program, implemented by the Jordan Operations and Maintenance Training (OMT) project, trained operators in correct methods of collecting and reporting daily plant performance. Location: Amman, Jordan Submitted to 2018 #WaterSecureWorld Photo Contest by Chemonics

Excavator in Kenya

Luangwa Zebra

Improving WASH in India

Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, made landfall on the island of Dominica on September 18, 2017, causing widespread devastation.

Improving learning outcomes in early literacy Improving literacy levels requires early intervention and early grade reading in particular is a powerful tool to achieve later educational success. "These pupils are still new - about two month's old in primary school. In a class of 55, more than half have mastered spellings, sounds, reading and writing in such a short period. Tusome is good. The pictures incorporated in the books are a great idea to retain pupil attention and words/pictures recognition," said Mwanamisi Ngare, a standard 1 class teacher at Mvindeni Primary School in Kwale County.

The Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) is USAID’s flagship water program along the Mara River, Kenya. SWP educates communities on water risk and conservation, while the communities provide invaluable local perspective. It’s not just the atmosphere of transboundary cooperation that sets SWP’s work apart. It’s also the sense of ownership Mumbo and his team are cultivating in the people of the Mara, from community members to government officials to private sector representatives. View of the Mara River Basin from above.

In Sugodi, Barangay Cabayugan, Palawan, Philippines, newly cleared forest land for agriculture, with views of pristine forests protected by the CADC and park areas in the background.

This project improved water access to six beneficiary communities through decentralized water treatment kiosks and improved sanitation facilities and hygiene behaviors for schools in those communities. Over 5,000 students and teachers gained water and sanitation access at school. Over 1,000 people gained household water access and six schools were measurably impacted by project activities. Ultimately, 60,000 people with limited water access were reached through the kiosks.

AOM Mango Processing Plant - Mali/ Value Chains

USAID Peru

A village of small, colorful houses sits precariously on a tropical mountainside in Haiti.

A man pulls a buoy onto a boat near a small island in the Federated States of Micronesia.

USAID's Amazon Vision 2020 Report looks at the Agency's efforts to address illegal deforestation, among other topics. This includes USAID’s collaboration with Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) to research how the effects of illegal deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru can be mitigated and reversed. CINCIA scientists are researching reforestation techniques to reclaim the Amazon as quickly as possible, as well as monitoring mercury pollution and deforestation using drones. If CINCIA’s reforestation pilot with Peru’s National Protected Areas Services in Tambopata National Reserve is successful, the government of Peru could use similar techniques to reforest other areas of the Amazon, such as the nearly 10,000 hectares in southeastern Peru that have been destroyed by illegal mining since 1985. CINCIA uses drones like the one pictured here to improve the analysis of deforested mining areas. 

Working in Chennai water treatment