Hard Data
We offer a variety of performance metrics to show how and where your donations are being invested -- and the results they are achieving.
ANNUAL Impact Report:
| Fiscal 2024 (to June 30, 2024) | Projects | Human Impact |
| New Wells | 421 | 227,117 |
| Hand Pump Repairs | 4,367 | 1,630,539 |
| Dormant Well Rehabilitations | 324 | 141,497 |
| Community Toilets | 23 | 3,329 |
| Rainwater Harvesting/Storage Systems | 3 | 250 |
| Community Hand-Washing Stations | 26 | 3,579 |
| Health and Hygiene Workshops* | 1,253 | 234,275 |
| Total | 6,441 | 2,240,586 |
* Some Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; others occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above. In total, we offered 995 H&H workshops in fiscal 2023, benefiting a combined 157,309 children and adults.
Before-and-after research at project sites revealed these impacts in fiscal 2024:
- An average of 433 people were benefiting from each water project
- 638,629 hours were saved EACH DAY by children and adults (85.7 minutes per household) no longer needing to walk long distances for water
- 3,677,007 additional HOURS EACH MONTH that children were in school rather than fetching water
- 459,626 additional DAYS EACH MONTH that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water
- $11,326,524 in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
- a $5.34 economic return for each $1.00 invested by a donor (value of hours saved from walking to fetch water that can be applied to earning income, of hours saved that can be applied to attending school, of household savings from no longer buying water, etc.)
CUMULATIVE Impact Report:
| 1995 to the end of the most recent month | Projects | Human Impact |
| New Wells | 2,803 | 1,576,162 |
| Hand Pump Repairs | 11,225 | 5,144,797 |
| Dormant Well Rehabilitations | 1,515 | 701,703 |
| Community Toilets | 193 | 85,706 |
| Rainwater Harvesting/Storage systems | 446 | 147,057 |
| Community Hand-Washing Stations | 423 | 112,904 |
| Health and Hygiene Workshops | * | * |
| Total | 16,605 | 7,768,329 |
*Only some Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; some occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above. We did not log H&H workshops during the early years of Lifewater so we are unable to provide an accurate cumulative count for workshops or beneficiaries throughout Lifewater's history.
CURRENT FISCAL YEAR Impact Report:
| July 1, 2024 to the end of the most recent month | Projects | Human Impact |
| New Wells | ||
| Hand Pump Repairs | ||
| Dormant Well Rehabilitations | ||
| Community Toilets | ||
| Rainwater Harvesting/Storage systems | ||
| Community Hand-Washing Stations | ||
| Health and Hygiene Workshops* | ||
| Total |
*Only some of the Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; others occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above..
Before-and-after research at project sites revealed these impacts so far in fiscal 2024:
- An average of XXX people are benefiting from each water project
- XXX,XXX hours were saved EACH DAY by children and adults no longer needing to walk long distances for water
- X,XXX,XXX additional HOURS EACH MONTH that children were in school rather than fetching water
- XXX,XXX additional DAYS EACH MONTH that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water
- $XX,XXX,XXX in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
- a $X.XX economic return for each $1.00 invested by a donor (value of hours saved from walking to fetch water that can be applied to earning income, of hours saved that can be applied to attending school, of household savings from no longer buying water, etc.)
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Here are some "impact graphs" (last updated July 5, 2024):
