Forbes: 30 Under 30 Asia – Meet The Class Of 2017
Read the article in Forbes magazine. Diversity and empowerment: two words that come to mind when attempting...
WaterSHED Ventures Launches Quick-Install Toilet Shelter Into Rural Market in Cambodia
Phnom Penh – WaterSHED Ventures, a Cambodia-based social business, has launched its Paradise Shelter in the rural...
Business Profile – Bo Sambath
Along a stretch of highway in Kampong Speu province, toilets, painted a bright sky blue, jut out...
Die WELT: My house, my moped, my toilets | How a businesswoman turns toilets into a luxury items
A toilet saleswoman points to a poster showing man’s best friend and a man relieving themselves outdoors,...
Accelerating Sanitation Coverage with Smart Business
This month the staff from more than 200 small businesses are being trained on the new ‘Smart...
Business profile – Chan Sor
On the last week of February WaterSHED’s Women’s Empowerment team arrived in Takeo province, less than two...
WaterSHED launches program to get more women into toilet industry
Phnom Penh – WaterSHED marks International Women’s Day 2016 with the launch of WEwork, a first-of-its-kind program...
How Do We Measure Women’s Empowerment?
As we launch our new Women’s Empowerment program, one of the biggest challenges we will face is...
Reflections on Nairobi: Breaking the Barriers to Women’s Empowerment
Last week our Women’s Empowerment Program Manager, Sarah van Boekhout, and Social Behaviour and Research Specialist, Janita...
AsiaLIFE: Cambodian Clean Water Innovation Shortlisted For Design Award
Read the article in AsiaLIFE magazine. WaterSHED’s HappyTap portable sink has been shortlisted in the finals for...
HappyTap Finalist in World Design Impact Competition
Phnom Penh – WaterSHED’s HappyTap portable sink has been chosen as a finalist for the World Design...
Business profile – Srun Sokheng
At Srun Sokheng’s house, down an unpaved road in Kampong Cham, toilet rings are everywhere. Drying in...
Deutsche Welle: Cambodia makes progress flushing sanitation problems
Read the article in Deutsche Welle. Local innovations have catapulted Cambodia, which has long had dire toilet...
Civic Champions profile – Mey Sahun
In the early morning hours, Mey Sahun and his wife walk out to the back of their...
Customer profile – Min Vibol
Srae Kok village is less than 40 km away from Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh but the quiet...
AsiaLIFE: Toilets of Cambodia
Read the article in AsiaLIFE magazine. Cambodia has the region’s worst indicators on toilet use, but this...
Civic Leaders Bring Transformational Change to Cambodia’s Sanitation
Leadership training is not groundbreaking. But Civic Champions is. How WaterSHED is guiding local leaders to boost...
Huffington Post: Funky Sink Gets Kids In Cambodia To Wash Up, Could Save Thousands Of Young Lives
Read the article in Huffington Post. Children in Cambodia won’t have a problem keeping their hands clean thanks...
LaBobo & Safeguard team up for Global Handwashing Day 2015
LaBobo and Safeguard partner for Global Handwashing Day, offering gifts with purchase exclusively for customers in Vietnam Ho...
Introducing: Our Toilet Shelter
Over the last five years we have successfully designed a low-cost, high-quality toilet, marketed it as aspirational,...
A Matter of Good Taste
PRESS RELEASE: Cambodian preferences for drinking water Phnom Penh, Cambodia – A survey published by Cambridge Journals...
Al Jazeera: Portable sink promoting hygiene among Cambodia children
Read the article in Al Jazeera. Lack of sanitation in Cambodia kills thousands of people every year, mostly children under the...
Reuters: A playful, portable sink to boost handwashing hygiene in Cambodia
Read the article on Reuters. A growing number of charities is focusing on selling appealing sanitation products rather...
Washing Your Hands Just Got Easier
PRESS RELEASE – Award-winning hand-washing device to enter Cambodian market. Phnom Penh – WaterSHED Ventures is launching LaBobo...
The Phnom Penh Post: Children’s faeces just as toxic, report says
Read the article in The Phnom Penh Post. A recently released study on hygiene in Cambodia has...
Dangers of Child Feces
A new WaterSHED study shows many households are not disposing of child feces hygienically. PRESS RELEASE –...
Why Shelters Matter
The lack of affordable quality shelters means fewer people purchase a toilet. We were pretty excited last...
USAID Health Expo: Cambodia
USAID partner, WaterSHED, takes part in development innovation exhibit in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia – WaterSHED...
Market testing the LaBobo in Cambodia
WaterSHED tests new hand-washing technology in rural Cambodian market. 18 December, 2014 – The world’s first purpose-built,...
The Secret Sauce of the Civic Champions Project
The Civic Champions program is a 9 month program designed to transform rural commune councilors in Cambodia...
Customer profile – Im Leng
King Srei Soryapor founded the new Khmer capital in what is now Odongk in 1601. Under the...
Business profile: Gov Seang Loy
At over 50 years old and with 6 grown children, many Cambodian women Gov Seang Loy’s age...
Mastering WASH Sales in Vietnam
VIETNAM, June 2014 – It all comes down to people. Recognizing the importance of staying up to...
Advisory Group Highlights Importance of Sustainability in Leadership Development
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – “Our ancestors could build Angkor Wat, why can’t we build a toilet?” asked...
Local Leaders Push for Total Sanitation
KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE, CAMBODIA – More than 50 commune councilors from Kampong Speu province came together for...
Market solutions to Cambodia’s toilet troubles
From IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), June 5, 2014 PHNOM PENH, 5 June 2014 (IRIN) – Having...
Civic Champions profile – Sok Chantou
As a female commune councilor, Ms Chantou does whatever it takes to improve her community. She repeats...
Vietnam Hygiene Campaign Kicks Off with HappyTap
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – May 17, 2014. More than one thousand children, teachers, and health...
Civic Champions profile – Chea Chhim
A globally famous American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,...
Business profile – Suy Sokhim
In every morning of the weekday, 35 year-old Suy Sokhim has been performing her role as a...
Business profile – Sorn Naroath
From managing the business to actually working in concrete production, 31-year-old Mrs Sorn Naroath has earned respect,...
Civic Champions profile – Seoung Mim
Achieving the Open Defecation Free (ODF) target in the rural villages and communes is an honorable but...
The lack of access to latrine in rural Cambodia (Radio feature by Radio Australia)
Please click on the link below to read and listen in Khmer to Radio Australia live interview...
‘Model Leader’ Program Takes Flight at Conference of Civic Champions
WaterSHED’s Civic Champions project commenced its initial phase with a three-day Discover conference from October 16 to 18 in...
World Toilet Day Highlights Sanitation Solutions
From The Cambodia Daily, November 20, 2013 By SIMON HENDERSON and AUN PHEAP Yesterday marked World Toilet...
Cleaning up Cambodia’s toilet problem
Read original article on DW.de Cambodia has the lowest rate of toilet coverage in Southeast Asia, leading...
Thousands of Rural Cambodians Gain Access to a Latrine on National Sanitation Day
PHNOM PENH – An estimated 3,125 rural Cambodians across seven provinces will gain access to safe sanitation...
USAID & WaterSHED Engage the Private Sector to Market Handwashing in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM | WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Agency for International Development Development Innovation...
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...
WaterSHED & Vietnam Women’s Union Join to Celebrate Global Handwashing Day in Phu Tho
VIET TRI, PHU THO PROVINCE, VIETNAM – On October 14th 2013, WaterSHED and the Vietnam Women’s Union hosted a...