WaterSHED’s Hands-Off Sanitation Marketing Wins 1st Prize in Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – WaterSHED’s innovative market-based approach to sanitation was recognized with First Prize in the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, announced during... Read More
Video: Introducing the HappyTap
WaterSHED's Handwashing Device Commercialization Project aims to create a dynamic commercial market in Vietnam for handwashing devices in which businesses can earn an attractive return, consumers are empowered
A Partnership to Improve Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
May 24, 2013 By Maura O’Neill, The Huffington Post Read original post In Vietnam, WaterSHED is introducing and testing HappyTap to see... Read More
WASH for Life grant for HappyTap highlighted in Sanitation Updates
May 24,2013 By Sanitation Updates Read original post The HappyTap, a low-cost handwashing device for the Vietnamese market, is one of seven innovations... Read More
USAID and Gates Foundation Announce Seven New Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Grantees
May 22, 2013 By USAID Read original post Using a market-based approach to improving hygiene, WaterSHED will test how the commercial introduction... Read More
Handwashing enabling products for developing countries: Design features, preferences, and behavior change from an in-depth product trial in Cambodia
Download the Study Presentation (pdf) Overview This poster featuring the HappyTap handwashing device was presented by Dr. Mimi Jenkins (WaterSHED – The... Read More
USAID Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Award to Commercialize Innovative Handwashing Solution
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) awarded WaterSHED, an NGO based in Cambodia, a $100,000 Stage 1 grant to seed the commercial introduction of an innovative hand-washing solution in Vietnam. The commercial launch and scale-up of WaterSHED’s hand-washing product will be a pioneering
WaterSHED Projects Spotlighted in Berlin TEDxChange Talk
On 05 April 2012, WaterSHED’s innovative sanitation marketing and handwashing programs were highlighted at an internationally broadcast TEDxChange event in Berlin, Germany. Award-winning IDEO product designer Jeff Chapin presented his experience
USAID Launches Innovative Handwashing Device at Investor Forum in Vietnam
On November 5, 2010, USAID’s WaterSHED program launched its new Happy Tap household handwashing station at an investor forum in Ho Chi Minh City. The event, conducted by the Global Institute for Tomorrow, was attended by over 100 participants including USAID-VN, the Vietnam Plastics Association, Procter & Gamble
Cambodia Sanitation – Partners Win Award for Low-cost Latrine Design
On August 7th, Jeff Chapin, of the design firm IDEO, accepted the annual International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from Fast Company Magazine for the “Easy Latrine” toilet design. Chosen as “Best in Class” from over 1500 entries, Easy Latrine was produced by IDEO in collaboration with International Development Enterprises-Cambodia and WaterSHED partner, Lien Aid