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title: IWSH World Plumbing Day Essay Contest
description: Enter the annual IWSH Scholarship Essay Contest for World Plumbing Day
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# Enter the IWSH Scholarship Essay Contest

![IWSH Essay Contest graphic](https://iwsh.org/hubfs/IWSH%20Essay%20Contest%20graphic.jpg)

## Our 2026 Contest is Now Closed. 

Thank you to everyone who entered.

The 2027 topic will be announced in the Spring of 2027.

###### The Need

## 1000 children die daily from poor sanitation

- 2,100,000,000 people do not have taps that bring fresh water to their houses.  That’s 3 in 10 people.
- 4,500,000,000 people do not have toilets in their house.  **That’s 6 in 10 people**.
- 361,000 children aged under 5 die each year from water-born diarrhoea caused by contaminated water. **Almost 1,000 children a day.**
- 900,000,000 school children have no handwashing facilities.

Most people take safe water and basic indoor plumbing for granted. But **a substantial water access gap exists**, We seek to lift up new voices to help us achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal #6 of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

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