A billion people live without a safe water supply, two and a half billion or more than 40% of all people have no place to use a safe toilet. Recently on the Internet there was a competition to look for creative local solutions to water and sanitation needs.

 10亿人没有安全的水供应，25亿人或者说全世界40%的人没有安全的厕所可以用。近期网上有一个为洁净水与卫生问题寻找地方创造性解决办法的比赛。

Two organizations, Ashoka’s Changemakers and Global Water Challenge, organized the worldwide search. Global Water Challenge is a coalition of 22 groups working for change in water and sanitation.

 Ashoka的Changemakers计划与全球应对水问题促进会组织了这次全球性的搜索。全球应对水问题促进会由22个小组组成，致力于水资源和卫生系统的改变。

Ashoka is a group for social entrepreneurs, people who look for creative solutions to social problems. Its Changemakers.net Web site is an online community where competitions are held. Anyone can vote or provide ideas and resources.

 Ashoka是为那些寻求创造性解决社会问题的人提供帮助的组织。它在changemakers.net上开展了这次比赛。任何人都可以提供意见和资源。

The search for water and sanitation projects received more than 250 proposals from 54 countries. Judges chose nine finalists in April. Then visitors to the site voted for three winners. All three are from India. Each will receive 5000 dollars from Global Water Challenge.

 水和卫生项目的研究收到了来自55个国家的250份建议。四月，评委们从中选出了9份进入决赛。然后，网页的浏览者投票选出冠亚季军。结果前三名都来自印度，他们每个人都可以获得全球水资源挑战提供的5000美元。

Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers won for a sanitation project called Slum Networking. It involves looking for natural solutions like gravity-based, house-to-house water and sanitation connections in poor areas.

 咨询工程师Himanshu Parikhx的贫民区网络项目获了奖。这涉及到为基于重力，挨家挨户，水和卫生设施寻找自然方式解决方案。

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