Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistNumbers are important, but they tell only part of a story.For instance, at the end of every calendar year, WaterStep quantifies the number of people impacted by the safe water, sanitation, and hygiene projects the organization and its field consultants carried out among the 74 countries in which we have worked over the past 28 years.In 2023… Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistAnother year draws to a close. In the coming days, many of us will celebrate the promise of new life, wrapped in a holiday both religious and secular.At the end of every year, we need a reminder of that promise because the story of life is the story of struggle. This year’s struggles, human-made and natural and throughout the world... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistIf you want to see WaterStep in action, if you want to see your donations to WaterStep in action, look no further than the pictures on this page.They show field consultants and representatives of this Louisville, Ky.-based organization responding to a natural disaster in Tanzania, just one of 70 countries in which WaterStep has operated; we’... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistPeople call me Rusty. Given my royal-sounding breed, some might consider me more of a Chauncey, but I’m a cool dog and I’m good with Rusty.I’m an 8-year-old Cavapoo, a hybrid of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Poodle. Humans say my pack is affectionate, friendly, and sociable. I think my two-legged pack at WaterStep, where I hang a... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistA teacher shares how access to bleach and safe water has changed the lives of a school and students in KenyaIt’s one thing to say that safe water is a basic human right. It’s quite another to be part of a movement that works to ensure that right, and to see proof of that work and movement in action. And the difference it can make in the... Source ..read more

A proverb with roots around the world tells us:“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”We at WaterStep, with our beautiful community of donors and volunteers like you, know the truth of that proverb. Because working together, we have come so far in the life-saving work of bringing access to safe water to more of the world’s adults and children. Safe water:Increases... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications Specialist18 is a big year for most young people, and it has been a big year for Isabella Mei Lamkin, too.She took her ACT test, plus dual-credit courses, planning to go to college after she graduates high school and has a gap year.She got her first “real” job, as a receptionist for a dental company.She worked an “unofficial” job over the summer... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications SpecialistIn a Myrtle Street conference room, in a warehouse-like building in Old Louisville that is the world headquarters of WaterStep, the ceilings seem almost high enough to accommodate the achievements and goals of two young women who, despite so much in common, are meeting for the first time.They belong to an exclusive, if unofficial... Source ..read more

Written by: Pam Platt, WaterStep Communications Specialist Lily Pad network introduced to potential future operators, usersIn its 28-year history, WaterStep has responded to 32 disasters – including an Ebola outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic, a war, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados, a volcano, and a typhoon – with safe water equipment and sanitation and hygiene training for stricken... Source ..read more

Imagine a day without water in Louisville? No water, no River City. No Belle of Louisville and Mary M. Miller riverboats. No Mary M. Miller, America’s first woman licensed sea captain. No jaunty calliope music on the Waterfront. No Steamboat Museum. No Water Tower. No Waterfront Park. No Waterfront Wednesdays. No Thunder Over Louisville fireworks from the Clark Memorial Bridge. Source ..read more