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  • A woman emptying, sorting, crushing and removing the labels from plastic water and soda drink bottles before organising them for recycling, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Manjali Hasda drinks clean water from the biosand water filter at her home in  Sharanamati Village, Nepal
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  • And most homes in this rural, Nepalese community do. Radhika Murmu drinks water from a biosand water filter inside the doorway to her family home.
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  • After dinner, Asmita drinks water from her family's biosand filter.
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  • Clean water helps children stay healthy, which means they are less likely to need time away from school, so their education improves. Providing clean water has important knock-on effects.
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  • Once a day a large bowser delivers the district's only source of clean water. Women fill large plastic drums with water, which they will carry back to their homes. The water will provide all their families' water for cooking, cleaning and sanitation, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Meera, a young woman living in the slum, carrying buckets filled with water back to her home, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Once a day a large bowser delivers the district's only source of clean water. Women fill large plastic drums with water, which they will carry back to their homes. The water will provide all their families' water for cooking, cleaning and sanitation, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Meera, a young woman living in the slum, cleans the floor of the family home whilst her mother sits on the bed, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • A girl holding a plastic cup of water outside a schoolroom, SALT Ministeries Orphanage Home and School, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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  • Meera, a young woman living in the slum, fills buckets with water from a standpipe, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Meera, a young woman living in the slum, carrying buckets filled with water back to her home, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • A woman pumping water from a standpipe in the street outside her home, Jote, Shibrampur, Kolkata, India
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  • A smiling schoolgirl sitting at her desk in the classroom, Borisha High School, Bahela, Kolkata, India
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  • Working in a tea plantation in Kilgoris, Kenya
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  • Muna Thapa collects water from a ground source water pump outside her village home. This water has not been treated and whilst it can be used for irrigtaion, it may not be safe to drink. However, it does provide a source of water that Muna can put into the biosand filter.
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  • A new latrine under construction beside a house, currently being rebuilt after being destroyed in the 2015 earthquake, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Muna's biosand filter is inexpensive, easy to maintain, does not require electricity and provides a reliable source of clean water for Muna and her family.
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  • Manju and Saleena Lama, two children from local families where rebuilding work is taking place after the 2015 earthquake, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Members of the Shree Khanideri Sanokishan Krishi Sanakari Women's Co-operative hold a meeting outside a store in the centre of their village, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Children walk through a village currently being reconstructed after being almost completely destroyed during the 2015 earthquake, Okharpauwa, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • 25 year-old Sapana Balami and her four year-old daughter, Aanchal Balami, now have access to a latrine near their home, Okharpauwa, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • 25 year-old Sapana Balami working as a labourer, carrying building materials, with her four year-old daughter, Aanchal Balami, Okharpauwa, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • A schoolboy washing his hands with clean water in a Splash sink
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  • Two schoolgirls washing their hands with clean water in a Splash sink
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  • Ever smiling, Parbati collects water for her biosand filter from a communal hand pump.
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  • Before dinner, Chandramani Karki and Rajes Thapa wash their hands in the water from a biosand water filter. Educating families about the importance of hygiene and sanitation ensures that they can make the most of their clean water supply.
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  • Dhanamumi Murmi mixes the cement that she will use to construct the biosand filters. The materials required for the construction of the filters are readily available, inexpensive but very resilient.
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  • A young woman wearing a pretty dress running barefoot through an alleyway, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Srijana Phuyal and her 18 month-old daughter, Riya in the doorway of their home, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Elected Member, Laxmi Tamang, and President of the Shree Khanideri Sanokishan Krishi Sanakari Women's Co-operative, Nirmala Tamang, in conversation, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • A girl washes her hands with clean water in a Splash sink
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  • Cheerful Manjali Hasda in the doorway of her village home.
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  • In the morning, Tara Dahal helps her daughter with her school uniform in the family kitchen. A biosand filter allows Tara to wash fruit and vegetables with uncontamintaed water, allowing her to be confident that her children are far less likely to become ill.
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  • Muna Thapa carries a bucket of water across a rice paddy near her home. Water from the ground source can be used for irrigation, for livestock and to replenish the supply in the family's biosand filter.
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  • Lukhi Ram, an employee at the biosand water filter factory, is preparing the containers which will sit in the top of the biosand filters. Water can be collected from any source and poured into the orange containers, from where gravity will pull it down through several layers, killing 99% of bacteria inthe process.
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  • Dhanamumi Murmi cleans and sorts the gravel that she will use in the biosand filters. A gravel layer elevates other materials above the outlet pipe, ensuring that it is kept free flowing.
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  • A young woman carrying plastic bottles filled with water in a bucket balanced upon her head, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • A boy jumping and laughing in front of clothes lockers with bright, colourful doors, ACODO, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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  • Local ENPHO staff member, Radhika Ghamire, teaching four year-old Rhythm Phuyal the technique for effective hand washing., Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Grandmother Laxmi Phuyal tends to the fire where she cooks for her family. The fire provides heat for boiling and frying all the family's meals, which often include rice, lentils, curry and vegetables., Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • A home construction nearing completion in a village which was almost completely destroyed during the 2015 earthquake, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • A member of the Shree Khanideri Sanokishan Krishi Sanakari Women's Co-operative and a young girl, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • ENPHO staff lead a community training programme, teaching the principles of sanitation and hygiene., Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Whilst many of us take it for granted that clean, uncontaminated water will pour out of our taps, it's not something that Radhika could be sure of without her family's biosand filter.
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  • Removed from their moulds and freshly painted, the biosand filters and sacks of sand and gravel are loaded onto a trailer, ready for delivery and installation.
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  • Factory workers, Dhanamumi Murmi and Anjan Dahal ,maintain one of the basic moulds, from which biosand filters are constructed. They are two of only half a dozen employees who run the factory and are responsible for building all the biosand water filters for the local area.
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  • A schoolboy cycles past the biosand filter factory on his way to school in Sharanamati. The factory can be reached via a sandy road. It requires no electricity and no more than a light shelter to provide workers with some protection from the elements.
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  • Srijana Phuyal and her 18 month-old daughter, Riya inside their home, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • President of the Shree Khanideri Sanokishan Krishi Sanakari Women's Co-operative, Nirmala Tamang, Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Local ENPHO staff member, Radhika Ghamire, teaching local mother of two, Srijana Phuyal, the technique for effective hand washing., Kakani, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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  • Bisnu replenishes the biosand water filter outside her family home in Sharanamati Village.
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  • Radhika's kitchen is simple but effective. A gas hob, a few spices and clean water, courtesy of the CAWST biosand filter.
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  • Radhika tops up the container at the top of the biosand filter.
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  • Muna Thapa fills the biosand filter with water collected from a ground source pump. Gravity will draw the water through a biological layer, then through layers of sand and gravel, removing 99% of bacteria in the process.
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