Why water? Why coffee?

Today, 703 million people around the world don’t have access to clean water. The majority live in isolated, rural areas – the same areas growing our coffee. 

Coffee is a water-intensive crop with a large water footprint. Up to 840L of water is needed to make one 750ml pot of coffee. That’s more than tea, sugar, wheat, and barley. While we enjoy the purest filtered water in our coffee, the communities at the end of its supply chain face a water crisis. 

Project Waterfall’s mission is to unite the coffee industry and coffee consumers to give back to the communities growing our coffee, by investing in sustainable clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects. This is why 100% of funds raised by UK Coffee Week go straight to Project Waterfall.  

this years project

Funds raised during UK Coffee Week 2023 will directly fund Project Waterfall’s latest initiative in Berbere, Ethiopia. 

• Ethiopia is considered the biological and cultural home of coffee.

• 82% of households in the Berbere area use water from unprotected sources.

Working in partnership with the local government as well as WaterAid, Project Waterfall will build a solar powered multi-village gravity-flow water system, that will provide water to 40,000 people.

The new infrastructure will be climate resistant and accessible to everyone in the area.