For customers
Drink tap – save lives! is an easy way for you to help save the lives of the world’s poorest people.
Simply make a donation to WaterAid if you ask for tap water when out at a participating restaurant, cafe or bar.
How much should you donate?
The amount you donate is up to you. You might like to donate £1 or more. Put together with donations from other people throughout the campaign, your donation WILL make a difference. Just £15 is enough to provide one person with a lasting supply of clean, safe water.
Participating restaurants, cafes and bars
Participating restaurants, cafes and bars will be displaying posters and table cards promoting the campaign.
If your favourite restaurant, cafe or bar hasn’t yet signed up to our Drink tap – save lives! campaign, why not take them a Sign-up form and Terms and conditions.
What you will get out of your involvement
Quite simply, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping to save lives! Your involvement will help provide clean, safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education for the world’s poorest people.
What different amounts of money can achieve
Here are some illustrations of what could be achieved with the money raised through the campaign:
• £1.10 could pay for a tap in Pakistan used by approximately 40 people
• £3 could pay for a latrine cover slab used by a family of up to seven people in Nepal
• £15 could provide one person with a lasting supply of clean, safe water
• £30 could pay for one month’s salary for a hygiene educator in Bangladesh, who can deliver hygiene education to 200 families living in slums
• £125 could pay for the construction of six hygienic latrines in Zambia
• £350 could support a school sanitation block for 150 boys and girls in India
• £460 could pay for two public water points used by 500 people in Ethiopia
• £1,500 could pay to install a well in the south of Madagascar used by 500 people £4,000 could pay for a community-wide hygiene and sanitation training benefiting 1,000 people in Tanzania
• £5,000 could pay to site and drill a borehole which provides safe, clean water to 500 people in Ghana