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WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE

Rotary supports activities that encourage the management and protection of freshwater resources and
provide universal and equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. TRF seeks to
empower governments, institutions, and communities to manage their water, sanitation, and hygiene
services through environmentally sound, measurable, and sustainable interventions.

Area of Focus Statement of Purpose and Goals

TRF enables Rotarians to ensure communities’ sustainable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene by:

1. Facilitating universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water
2. Improving water quality by protecting and maintaining surface- and groundwater resources,
reducing pollution and contaminants, and promoting wastewater reuse

3. Facilitating universal and equitable access to improved sanitation and waste management
services in order to achieve open defecation-free communities

4. Improving community hygiene knowledge, behaviors, and practices that help prevent the spread
of disease

5. Strengthening the capacity of governments, institutions, and communities to develop, finance,
manage, and maintain sustainable water and sanitation services
6. Funding graduate scholarships for career-minded professionals related to water, sanitation, and
hygiene

Parameters for Eligibility

TRF considers the following activities to be within the scope of the water, sanitation, and hygiene area of
focus:

1. Ensuring access to safe drinking water, including projects focused on water supply, storage,
purification, treatment, and source water protection
2. Ensuring access to improved sanitation, defined as the collection, treatment, and disposal of
human excreta or urine through sanitation infrastructure and fecal-sludge management,
treatment, and disposal

3. Providing hygiene education that promotes healthy behaviors such as hand washing, safe disposal
of human waste, safe water storage, and proper menstrual hygiene. The program must identify
the factors that prevent or encourage positive behaviors and describe how to address barriers.

4. Providing solid waste management systems, defined as the process of collecting, treating and
disposing of solid waste materials

5. Using watershed management practices to protect source water and recharge surface and
groundwater resources
6. Supplying water for crop, livestock, and fisheries production

7. Developing sustainable management practices to support water and sanitation services, including

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