This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed S. 641, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act by voice vote. The bill, introduced by Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has broad bipartisan support in the Senate. If enacted, the bill would provide better access to clean water and sanitation to

Action: 41. Time: 15 minutes. Level of difficulty: Moderate. It’s infuriating when great poverty-fighting bills are stuck in Congress. But that’s exactly what’s happening to the Water for the World Act. The Act has the ability to direct US efforts to help provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on

As mentioned on the blog last night, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act (S. 624) has passed the Senate by unanimous consent! This piece of legislation, introduced by Senators Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (R-TN), seeks to reach 100 million people around the world with sustainable access to clean water and sanitation

This is very big– and very exciting– news. The Water for the World Act just passed the Senate by unanimous consent. This important legislation can make a tremendous impact for the world’s poorest people by helping to improve water and sanitation in developing countries. We’ve been big advocates for the Water for the World Act

The Water for the World Act passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon. That’s thanks in large part to the more than 108,000 other ONE members who signed our petition supporting this bill — S. 624, which will bring first-time, sustainable access to clean water and sanitation to 100 million people by 2015.

Today at an event at the National Press Club hosted by The Atlantic, participants gathered to discuss domestic and international water and sanitation issues. While speaking about the Water for the World Act, which Senator Durbin introduced, ONE members got a nice shout-out. As you know, we launched our Water for the World campaign earlier

Senator Edward Kennedy, the “Lion of the Senate,” was a stalwart champion for ending extreme poverty in the poorest parts of the world. He lent his powerful voice for human rights, for an end to child poverty, and for freedom. From Bangladesh to South Africa to Ireland, Sen. Kennedy’s fingerprints remain on the movement against

Thanks in part to the efforts of more than 107,000 ONE members, we’ve hit our target of 20 cosponsors for the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act — which would provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015. Our thanks to Senators Harry Reid and

There’s been a lot of great momentum lately about providing clean water for the nearly one billion people in the world without it. In 2005, Congress passed the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act, and from 2007 to 2008, US funding for water, sanitation, and hygiene programs went up 45%. So what’s missing from

This Monday in Chicago, ONE held a rally at The Field Museum’s Water Exhibit to celebrate the Paul Simon Water for the World Act. The event featured US Senator Richard Durbin, an original cosponsor of the Water for the World Act, and we were joined by many ONE members, local guests and partner organizations. Before

Recently, as we wrote about on the ONE blog, Senator Joe Lieberman signed on to become a cosponsor of the Water for the World Act (S.624) which so many ONE members across the US have enthusiastically supported and encouraged their senators to do the same. In addition to signing on this important piece of legislation

As part of his advocacy work on behalf of clean water and sanitation around the world, actor and advocate Matt Damon recently visited new water projects in India. While there, he took the opportunity to thank the more than 100,000 ONE members who signed our petition to senators asking them to cosponsor the Durbin-Corker Water

At the beginning of this month, the voices of over 100,000 ONE members from across the country echoed through the halls of the U.S. Senate. Your voices in support of the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act made their way into every single Senate office. Since July 1, the day the petitions were delivered, four

Right now, ONE Members across the country are making a big push to get clean water out to highly impoverished parts of the developing world by contacting their Senators and urging them to sign onto the Paul Simon Water for the World Act. But in the late Senator Paul Simon’s home state of Illinois, people

Recently I discovered that Miami is one of the top cities for access to clean water. As a resident of Miami-Dade county this is great news. However, I am also quickly reminded how lucky we are. The very things we take for granted, opening a faucet, grabbing a glass of water are not possible for