A version from the visuals created for the Water and Food Award 2010 event in Copenhagen

1. NOMINEES
• Hunger project
• Iko toilet
• Permaculture Research Institute
• Sadhana Forest
• Solvatten

2. UGANDA (and more places):
No clean water close by
Days of sickness from infected
water
Hours spent fetching water
Hours spent fetching firewood

3. Firewood collection
depletes forests
Depleted forests hurt climate and agriculture

4. SOLVATTEN
•Water purifier
•Works on sunlight
•No other power needed
•Heats AND purifies

5. SOLVATTEN

6. SOLVATTEN

7. Solvatten shows us that it is possible to use
just the power of the sun to produce pure
water from badly contaminated-

8. AL-JAWASREH VILLAGE, JORDAN:
Desertification
One of the 10 most water deficient countries
in the world
Highly salty soil
Deforestation and desertification
Food shortages

9. THE PERMACULTURE
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Greening the Desert
Working with nature-based solutions
Applying years of knowledge and
experience
Rain harvesting and tree-based
microclimates
Two demonstration and training sites

10. THE PERMACULTURE
RESEARCH INSTITUTE

11. THE PERMACULTURE
INSTITUTE

12. The Permaculture Research Institute shows
us with their initiative it is possible, using
advanced design practices and
knowledge, to green the desert and to
disseminate the skills to others.

13. THE SLUMS OF NAIRIOBI:
Open defecation
Spreading diseases locally
Cholera and diarrhoea outbreaks frequent
Spreads with rain into local rivers

14. ECOTACT:
Engages community to set up toilets
Promotes commerce in adjoining malls
Collects nutrients to make fertilizer

15. THE IKO TOILET

16. THE IKO TOILET

17. Ecotact Ltd shows us that its is possible to
recycle human waste into a valuable
resource and change people’s attitude to
sanitation.
Reducing diseases and recycling waste
drive prosperity.

18. AUROVILLE INDIA:
Severely eroded farmland
Water table at 26 feet below the surface and
dropping
No water for crops
Rain run-off takes topsoil

19. SADHANA FOREST
Engaging volunteers from around the world
Building dams & embankments to trap rain
Creating food forest

20. SADHANA FOREST

21. SADHANA FOREST

22. Sadhana Forest shows us among other
things that we can reach the heart of
volunteers and engage them to turn
barren land back to being fertile.
Volunteerism is not dead it is alive and well!

23. ETHIOPIA:
Well and latrine projects failing
No training on repair
No training on maintenance
Reliance unsustainable

24. ETHIOPIA:
Well and latrine projects failing
No training on repair
No training on maintenance
Dependence on unsustainable
resources

25. THE HUNGER PROJECT:
Mobilizes community with vision of a future
free from hunger
Helps villages with their own construction
projects
Program helps finance and set up of
maintenance and operation
Hands over to self reliance

26. THE HUNGER PROJECT

27. THE HUNGER PROJECT

28. The Hunger Project shows us that we can
engage the community, that they can (with
a little help) come together around a
common vision to solve water, food and
sanitation challenges