October 31, 2010
A Water Charity Spills Its Secrets, and Donors Open Their Wallets
Water for People
Water for People’s Ned Breslin (at far left, working in India) says too many water projects in the developing world fall into disrepair as time passes and are not maintained.
Ned Breslin has spent most of the past two decades working in Africa, and he is tired of well-intentioned philanthropy bringing water to the developing world, only to see people suffer when the pumps break and projects go unused due to neglect and mismanagement by nonprofit groups.
Now Mr. Breslin, the head of Water for People, a global water and sanitation group in Denver, is trying to do something to reverse the track record of failure. His group is seeking to rewire its
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