BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The grant Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation. Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need, and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.
Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:

    Be replicable, scalable and sustainable. and set a benchmark for innovation
    Have practical applicability
    Address non-discrimination/equity of access
    Involve and impact a range of stakeholders
    Have local/community-level engagement

These are the criteria against which projects will be assessed.  Early stage projects are preferred.