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Since 1990, they have helped thousands of places in the developing world obtain safe drinking water and basic sanitation. They work through carefully-screened local partner organizations in the communities they serve and also use innovative financing methods, such as micro-credit. Their website notes that "half of all the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease." Water.org came about as a merger of Water Partners International and H20 Africa in July of 2009. |