Water for 50 Million 1 in 8 people in Latin America lack access
to clean water. One in eight people in Latin America lack access
to clean drinking water—that’s more than 77 million people. The
United Nations warns more than two-thirds of the global
population could face water scarcity in the next 15 years.
Protecting and restoring nature’s ability to provide the clean
water that is crucial for our lives and our economic development
can help turn the tide on clean water shortages around the
world. To help restore the natural systems that produce and
filter water 50 million people across Latin America, a new
public-private partnership has pledged $27 million dollars to
restore 7 million acres of critical watersheds in Ecuador,
Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Mexico and other countries. The Latin
American Water Funds Partnership—launched by The Nature
Conservancy, the FEMSA Foundation, the Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB) and the Global Environment Facility
(GEF)—shares a common vision for the future: preserving an