Members of the Water Committee for a project in Aouchpara Union, Bangladesh, proudly raise their hands. Their village practices Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), a program that has been used for more than a decade in Bangladesh to prevent open defecation. (photo: Mo Scarpelli)

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A community in the Aouchpara Union of rural Bangladesh holds a “social mapping” session to plan out who in their community has latrines already and how much each household could contribute to a new water and sanitation project. Social mapping is part of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), a program that has been used for more than a decade in Bangladesh to prevent open defecation — and it’s been pretty successful! (photo: Mo Scarpelli)

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Clean water flows from a charity: water project in West Bengal, India. charity: water proves every completed water project with GPS, photos and more details about the community it serves. See how we tie every dollar raised to a water project in the field here > (photo: Mo Scarpelli)

Mechanics in Uttar Pradesh, India, record the GPS coordinates and other information about a freshwater well. charity: water proves every completed water project with GPS, photos and more details about the community it serves. See how we tie every dollar raised to a water project in the field here > (photo: Mo Scarpelli)

This village in West Bengal shows the charity: water team how they keep track of the fees they collect to maintain their water project — with a savings account at their local bank. (photo: Mo Scarpelli)

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