Everything Starts With Water

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, in partnership with WaterAid, journalist and author Coco Khan speaks to Amaka Godfrey, WaterAid’s Executive Director of International Programmes. Amaka has spent more than 25 years working across the world in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. She shares powerful stories of how clean water means children stay in school, healthcare is safer, and mothers can support their families or run businesses. Clean water changes lives and unlocks potential for entire communities. As we head into the festive season - what is for many of us a time of comfort, celebration, and gatherings round a table - most of us won’t think twice about the clean water running from our taps that make it possible. But for millions of people around the world, this is something they just don’t have. Just £5 a month over a year can buy 5 standpipe taps so children like Nesteline, and her whole community, can have clean water for years to come. Please donate £5 a month today and help us to work alongside communities to bring clean water to everyone, everywhere. Visit wateraid.org/uk/intelligence to donate and find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our days start with water. Our whole lives revolve around it.
0:04.0	Health, education, livelihoods, they all start with water.
0:08.0	But one in ten people around the world don't have clean water.
0:12.0	People like 13-year-old Nestiline in Madagascar,
0:15.0	who collects dirty water every day before school because she doesn't have any other choice. 50% of people in Madagascar don't have clean water close to home.
0:25.6	But by donating to Water Aid, you can help change that.
0:28.6	Water Aid is working with communities in Madagascar and around the world to have clean water.
0:33.6	When a community gains clean water, everything changes.
0:36.6	Children stay in school, women reclaim
0:39.1	their time and safety, health improves, livelihoods thrive. The ripple effect is immediate and
0:44.8	it lasts for generations. Just £5 a month over a year can buy five standpipe taps so children
0:51.2	like Nestilene and her whole community can have clean water for years to come.
0:55.8	Please donate £5 a month today and help WaterAid to work alongside communities to bring clean
1:01.1	water to everyone everywhere. Visit water.org to find out more.
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1:29.7	hello vet.
1:35.1	Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet.
1:38.8	I'm Cocoa Khan, journalist, author and host of Pod Save the UK.
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