{"id":5965,"date":"2022-09-22T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnature.org\/together-for-water-around-the-globe-global-nature-fund-and-kaercher-celebrate-10-years-of-clean-water-for-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:38:06","slug":"together-for-water-around-the-globe-global-nature-fund-and-kaercher-celebrate-10-years-of-clean-water-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnature.org\/en\/together-for-water-around-the-globe-global-nature-fund-and-kaercher-celebrate-10-years-of-clean-water-for-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Together for water around the globe: Global Nature Fund and K\u00e4rcher celebrate 10 years of “Clean Water for the World”"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the projects organized by the GNF and the Fundaci\u00f3n
\nHumedales with the support of K\u00e4rcher
\ngreen filter built in Colombia.
\nPhoto: \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3n Humedales\/GNF<\/p>\n

In 2012, the environmental foundation Global Nature Fund (GNF) and cleaning equipment manufacturer K\u00e4rcher launched the “Clean Water for the World” program
\nThe program focuses on environmental protection, wastewater treatment and drinking water projects and has improved the livelihoods of thousands of people in countries of the Global South
\nAll projects use efficient, nature-based processes: so-called “nature-based solutions”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Radolfzell\/Winnenden, 22.09.2022<\/em>: This is the tenth anniversary of the start of a very special partnership: In 2012, Udo Gattenl\u00f6hner, Managing Director of the international environmental foundation Global Nature Fund (GNF), and Hartmut Jenner, Chairman of the Management Board of Alfred K\u00e4rcher SE & Co. KG, signed the cooperation agreement for the “Clean Water for the World” initiative. The goal: to work together to provide people around the world with safe access to clean water. In projects in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the construction of 17 green filter and 14 drinking water plants has since directly or indirectly improved the sanitary situation of around 450,000 people and enabled them to be supplied with clean water.<\/p>\n

GNF Managing Director Udo Gattenl\u00f6hner remembers the beginning of the cooperation:<\/p>\n

“The aim of the long-term collaboration with K\u00e4rcher was to build cost-effective, innovative constructed wetlands in developing and emerging countries. It was a good decision to focus on countries in South America in the first phase. The fact that we were then also able to convince the German government to provide additional funding for the construction of constructed wetlands in Latin America via the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) was a huge boost for the Clean Water for the World campaign.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The solutions lie in nature<\/h4>\n

K\u00e4rcher CEO Hartmut Jenner says about the tenth anniversary of “Clean Water for the World<\/strong>” and the cooperation with the GNF<\/strong>: “Our cooperation has been characterized by great mutual trust since the beginning. Together, we have managed to preserve the ecological and biological diversity in numerous rivers and lakes around the world and give many people access to clean drinking water.”<\/p>\n

“Over the past ten years, Clean Water for the World has used various strategies to improve the livelihoods of people living in the Global South. Whether with green filters, i.e. constructed wetlands co-developed by GNF, rainwater treatment, well drilling or the installation of pumps: the intention of the joint efforts is always to come up with sustainable, affordable and efficient solutions for the local people so that they can benefit from what is already there – i.e. “nature-based solutions”.<\/p>\n

The “Clean Water for the World<\/strong>” projects at a glance<\/h4>\n