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LIVE WEBCAST | UPCOMING EVENT
50 Years and Billions Spent: New Reporting Shows Universal Access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Draws Closer to Epic Goal Despite Global Pandemic
Tuesday
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May. 11, 2021
9:00am – 11:00am ET
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WASH WITHIN REACH

50 YEARS AND BILLIONS SPENT: NEW REPORTING SHOWS UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE DRAWS CLOSER TO EPIC GOAL DESPITE GLOBAL PANDEMIC

Join a special session with Ambassador Mark Green featuring groundbreaking reporting on one of the most stubborn challenges in human history—universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

Over the last half century a global galaxy of projects, programs, banks, philanthropies, government departments, idea centers, utilities, service companies, research groups, and consultancies devoted itself to one objective—providing every person on Earth clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. In 2020, many of the sector’s leaders worried that the COVID-19 pandemic would sidetrack investment and slow progress. But while the signs of a potential catastrophe were apparent, the actual effects of the pandemic in delivering water and sanitation to people who needed it were not nearly as dire as anticipated.

Decades of frontline experience provided the WASH sector keen understanding of the various components of their ecosystem—finance, governance, installation, management, operations, oversight—and how each influenced the other. In essence, the WASH community developed a set of approaches that simplified the complexity of what they were after. Achieving universal access to clean water and hygiene is reachable by 2030. Universal access to sanitation could come by mid-century.

These are some of the salient findings of WASH Within Reach , a project undertaken by the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue to investigate WASH services, financing, and resiliency. In interviews with over 40 authorities on five continents, and months of research, the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue unraveled the complexity of a global sector that now spends over $20 billion a year and is on its way to achieving one of the great breakthroughs in human well-being.

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Opening Remarks
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Ambassador Mark Green
President, Director, & CEO, Wilson Center

FRAMING REMARKS
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Maura Barry
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security and interim Global Water Coordinator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Reporting Presentation
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Keith Schneider
Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent, Circle of Blue

Moderator
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Lauren Herzer Risi
Project Director, Environmental Change and Security Program

Panelists
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Sheila Kibuthu
Communications Director, Sanergy

Joel Kolker
Program Manager, Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership, World Bank

Duncan McNicholl
Director and Co-founder, Uptime

Tanvi Nagpal
Director, International Development Program, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Keith Schneider
Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent, Circle of Blue

Closing Remarks
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Peter Laugharn
President and Chief Executive Officer, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation


EVENT CO-SPONSORS

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EXPLORE THE SERIES
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50 years, $400 billion, and a global pandemic later – water, sanitation and hygiene define a moment in human history.



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