Grants and funds available world wide.

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Dear friends this topic may help you to get to know about some latest grants and funds for water related sector available.

1.WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant Funding Available for Projects That Conserve Water or Address Water Sustainability http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=41384

2. Pre-Proposals Sought for Desalination and Water Purification Research Grant Opportunity http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=45864

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  1. Funding Sources - WASH & IAP Akvo Foundation - Akvo is a non-profit foundation with staff in the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and California. It helps to facilitate private donations to WASH projects. Alcoa Foundation - WASH funding is primarily geared toward conserving clean and safe water resources as part of a broader environmental program that addresses climate change and environmental sustainability. Funding goes to education and awareness programs about water conservation as well as to organizations that develop technology and infrastructure – watersheds and hydropower systems. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Focuses on improving safe and sustainable sanitation services by stimulating household demand for sanitation, promoting affordable market-based sanitation solutions, and encouraging the creation of effective sanitation policies at global and national levels. Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. - Funding for WASH aims to offset water used for Coca-Cola’s production process through two primary activities: improve water access and restore watersheds. Water access funding includes the development of technological solutions to increase safe water access such as in-home water pumps, rainwater harvesting, community water treatment systems, and distribution networks. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation - Funding for safe water-access programs for the world’s most poor, enabling environments, and information dissemination. Partners to support and fund a comprehensive WASH+ continuum (water access, sanitation, hygiene + livelihoods) in order "to support and enable sustainable and scalable access to safe water, improving the health, education, and livelihoods of the ultra poor.

  2. Country Director-Germany Animals Asia Munich, Germany - See more at: http://www.genevajobs.org/JobDescription.aspx?Job_Id=3755#sthash.uc3yqa58.dpuf

  3. Job id : 3741 Short-Term External Consultancy: Investment Promotion Expert Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - See more at: http://www.genevajobs.org/JobDescription.aspx?Job_Id=3741#sthash.zGtd7mft.dpuf