WatSan stands for "Water & Sanitation"
On WATSAN.COM you can:
- Make your own free advertising page; click on "Register" in the menu"
- Find the Companies and the Organizations you need, worldwide.
- Find or post a job in the water sector
- Publish your events
- Update your page as often as you want.
- Sponsor a water project in Africa with your banner
Click on "Participate" and make your free page in less than 10 minutes. This is interesesting, because you can see that we have many visitors that are looking specific for "watsan" information. Tip: just google with the term "watsan" and you will see how high we are and attract key-traffic with our Google Listing.
What about cost? ... Simple, your page is free of charge, no costs at all !
Free of charge? ... yes, so ... what's the catch?
There is no catch, unless you want to sponser a sustainable handpump in Africa with paying a little bit for your logo or message on our banner pages that pop-up when you open the main menu on the left.
For this, we team up with the FairWater Foundation in The Netherlands, who knows all about sustainable water projects in Africa, see their website www.fairwater.org
On this website FairWater explains that the main problem in Africa is that most water projects still use fragile handpumps that lasts only a few years without a good and solid maintenance concept.. Due to lack of spare parts, these pumps are abandonned within a few years and people in the communities have to go back again to unsafe and distant water sources.
An estimated 150.000 handpumps are abandonned, some 150.000 to 200.000 still work, but it is estimated that within a decade most of these remaining handpumps will also stop working.
FairWater has developed an unique approach to stop this drama by replacing such broken down handpumps with a new and innovative Dutch handpump, the Afripump. This pump is very reliable and does not need spare parts to function. Over 200 handpumps have already been changed to a durable Afripumpand, which means about 60.000 people that have now a reliable water supply.
So in stead of paying for your page, we would like to invite you to contribute to our water projects in Africa. See the FairWater website for more info on our water projects.
Sponsor the FairWater Foundation with your banner on our websites
For 500 US$ per year you can have a banner on WATSAN.COM or on the Fairwater website WatSan.org and sponsor the work of FairWater in Africa.
Just send us your Banner and we will put it on the banner page of your choice. You will receive an e-invoice for payment. Please indicate if your banner should connect to a webpage at WATSAN .COM or to your own website.
FairWater Project in Angola, before and after the replacement of an abandoned handpump
Who is
WATSAN.COM is managed by Watsan Consult, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The director Paul van Beers holds an MSc in Environmental Hydrology and has an international professional background of over 29 years in research, implementation, consultancies and project management on Water Supply, Hydrology and Environment in Africa and Europe. He is a member of the Dutch NEDWORC Consultants for Development Foundation and a founding board member of the FairWater Foundation and the Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective and has worked for Universities, Consultancy firms, The World Bank, and National and International NGOs.
OUR MISSION
WATSAN.COM is a world portal for all Water and Sanitation Products & Services. We specifically aim to promote networking between the commercial sector and the NGOs and Not-for-Profit Organizations, especially for the water sector in the developing countries.
Our Vision
It is our vision that linking WATSAN.COM with the FairWater Foundation website (www.watsan.org) will create more awareness and understanding for the water problems in Africa and help fundraising for water projects in Africa to contribute to reach the millennium goals in the Water & Sanitation sector for 2015.
Disclaimer: WATSAN.COM is not responsible for the quality of the products or services offered on this site and cannot be liable for any misuse or event which might have been caused, directly or indirectly by using WatSan.com or any of the products advertised on this site.
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