The Urgent Need for Climate-Resilient WASH
Finding effective climate-resilient WASH solutions is paramount as climate impacts intensify. In March 2025, WHO and UNICEF released a pivotal discussion paper identifying key indicators for monitoring climate-resilient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems. Developed in partnership with leading academic institutions, this initiative also highlights the urgent need to equip WASH infrastructure and services to withstand increasingly severe climate stressors—floods, droughts, temperature extremes, and rising sea levels.
Therefore, the paper calls for evidence-based solutions that can deliver service continuity, equitable access, and adaptive capacity in the face of climate volatility. Among these, simple, scalable interventions like Aquatabs, emerge as indispensable tools in the global WASH resilience toolkit.
Aquatabs: Bridging Gaps in WASH Continuity
However, turning indicators into impact requires partnership and innovation, particularly in scaling access to essential WASH interventions. As the paper highlights, ensuring service continuity and user experience during climate-related shocks is vital. Tools like Aquatabs directly enable this continuity by bridging gaps in water treatment capacity during floods, droughts, and infrastructure failures.
Aquatabs: Proven. Scalable. Climate-Ready.
Aquatabs is the world’s most widely used water disinfection tablet, trusted in over 100 countries by governments, UN agencies, and humanitarian responders. With a strong track record in both emergency response and everyday resilience, Aquatabs consequently enables rapid access to safe drinking water in settings where traditional infrastructure is absent, damaged, or unreliable.
How Aquatabs Aligns with Climate-Resilient WASH Goals
Our Alignment with Climate-Resilient WASH Goals:
- ? Service Continuity – Ensures safe water access during climate events (floods, droughts, infrastructure failure).
- ? Affordability and Scalability – Connect with Robert Cooper to explore seamless scalable distribution solutions.
- ? Empowering Communities – Aquatabs water system solutions support decentralised, user-led water safety practices.
- ? Supply Chain Resilience – Aquatabs tablets are compact, shelf-stable, and easily stockpiled for preparedness and recovery phases.
·        ? Integrated WASH Kits – The Aquatabs WASH Kit is a resilient solution that delivers water disinfection, hygiene, and sanitation tools in one package—supporting service continuity and community preparedness in the face of climate disruptions.
Why Support Climate-Resilient Solutions Now?
Climate shocks are increasing in frequency and severity, disrupting fragile WASH systems and disproportionately affecting the world’s poorest communities.
Traditional infrastructure is not enough. Localised, low-cost, high-impact solutions must complement larger investments in WASH systems.
Aquatabs offers immediate resilience—a bridge between system failure and long-term recovery. It is as much a development tool as it is a humanitarian one.
As WHO/UNICEF and partners finalise a global set of WASH resilience indicators, now is the time for donors to invest in proven solutions that match this evolving framework and are ready to deliver at scale.
Our Call to Action
We are seeking strategic partners and donors to help:
- ? Expand Aquatabs access in climate-vulnerable regions.
- ? Support integrated WASH resilience programming that includes product distribution, training, and monitoring.
- ? Co-develop innovations aligned with global resilience indicators.
The path to climate-resilient WASH is not only about monitoring—it’s about mobilising solutions that work now and build capacity for the future. Aquatabs is proud to support this mission and welcomes donor partners who share our vision of universal, equitable access to safe drinking water—no matter the climate.
Let’s ensure that resilience isn’t just measured—it’s delivered.
