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Measure the river: water quality, microplastics and waste hotspots, published openly.
The Nile Cleanup Foundation
What if we could actually clean the Nile together?
This isn't just a nice idea — it's the plan. We remove plastic and pollution from one of the world's most important rivers, and we work upstream so it stops arriving in the first place.
The mission
Clean water is the most precious resource we have.
The Nile carried the cradle of civilisation. Today it carries plastic. Waste enters faster than anyone removes it, and the people who depend on the river for drinking water, food and work carry the cost.
Our purpose is simple: protect the water, and make sure life keeps flourishing along the basin. Our method is a system — measurement, education and action — repeated until the numbers move.
See the current state of the river →
Our approach
Explore. Learn. Act. Repeat.
Learn
Turn the data into education for schools, communities and decision makers.
Act
Clean defined stretches, build prevention infrastructure, repeat with local crews.
Repeat
Package the process so the next stretch — and the next river — starts ahead.
Why it scales
A roadmap anyone can follow.
11
basin countries share the Nile
#1
priority: clean drinking water
3
levels of change: people, companies, states
1
open playbook, free to copy
Policymaker, NGO, educator, founder, or simply someone who cares — there is a place for you in this plan.
Get involvedLive data
See pollution as it is reported.
Our interactive map shows water quality readings from monitoring stations along the basin and trash hotspots reported by people on the ground. Spotted waste? Add it yourself.
Explore the live map