WaterAid Reviews 

So Water aid want you to donate £2 a month to contribute towards clean drinking water.
I think the truth is more like they want you to pay the £142,000 salary, and £16,124 pension contributions of their CEO and other greedy fat cats skimming the cream in their organisation.
I think it's all truly disgusting.

why should we provide money to help these ppl they are not our problem and your adverts are pathetic try helping your own ppl they get to many free hand outs

Thread is disgustingly and what does trust pilot do about it ???????????

Utter liars. Fat cat bosses take all your money.
There aren't any water supply problems, in fact it's worse here in the UK.

Just seen their pathetic outdated advert on tv, what country in 2026 are people still drinking this water so bad it can kill them??? Why would you film them collecting it?? Just to collect peoples moeny?? Over 10 years where are the clips showing what you have done so far?? BECAUSE YOU CANNOT! THIS "CHARITY" IS A SCAM!!!!

So the CEO earned in 2025 over £153,000. Fed up with these charity adverts. Seems to be a common trait with management earning big salaries.

Excellent charity doing excellent work to meet a global need successfully. If you do want to be critical and parochial then please focus on the scandal of UK water companies and a government wringing their dirty hands in horror but without any significant impact whatsoever.

I absolutely HATE these adverts which are shown continually on UK television!!
We already have many thousands of people suffering in our own country who need and deserve help and really don't need to concern ourselves with the people of other countries where their own governments clearly don't care!!

The thing I fail to understand is, in order to advertise on UK television, it costs hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds, therefore, Wateraid must be spending millions of pounds on advertising!!
If it isn't some kind of scam or tax write off,
then why not spend all that advertising money on the cause it proclaims to care so much about!!
Because I'm sure, just like myself,
many people will just change the channel until the advert has gone off, or will just choose to completely ignore it!!
Either way, they will get NO or very little money in return for the millions they're spending!!
Am I the only one who can see this??

Would somebody like to comment on the ethics of the television companies accepting money to run these ads?

The tv advert with the teacher and her pupils is unconvincing. What water does she drink?

Wateraid's latest advert uses an unrealistic, stereotyped image of a girl bringing filthy water to school, which misrepresents and patronizes communities who already understand water safety and have their own filtration and boiling practices. While clean-water access is a real issue, portraying people this way is crass, inaccurate, and undermines their dignity

I don’t trust this charity seem to be housed in the most expensive offices in London. The advert although there is a need is boring and unconvincing especially the guy in the glasses reading from a prompt, and now this new one “what on earth is it about or what is it trying achieve” absolutely rubbish. Why not actually publish the successes which will aid viewers to what has actually been achieved where and when.

Why is a charity that is exhorting us to give them money based in some of the most expensive accommodation in London? Surely they could save a considerable amount of the money that is donated by renting less lavish accommodation.
There is plenty of excellent and much less expensive accommodation available in the provinces.

Having visited several countries in Africa in person, I have never seen a child drink dirty water as seen on your TV adverts..
African mothers wouldn’t allow this, you people have no idea, don’t formulate lies and pluck on heart strings of those not able to visit my home country (Rhodesia) Zimbabwe..

STOP THE LIES!

I saw the TV ad asking for £2 a month to help provide clean water for children in certain countries. I rang the number and tried to give £5 a month via direct debit. The female staff member tried to guilt trip me into donating £10 a month as this would also stop people dying in other countries. If I trusted it would reach them, I would. I cut the call immediately . Shameful .

It’s a complete scam, very unlikely they have ever been to Africa, Tim Wainwright (CEO) gets £134.067.00 from your donations for working with a few admin staff in a small office on Canada Square in London. Their ads spew complete lies with dying children at around 1,000 a day from dirty water, a number the Government's in Africa were not even aware of. In my opinion it’s all complete rubbish (feel free to prove us wrong)

Wateraid should be banned.
lets see what the directors earn.

Their advert is obscene, the children are healthy, well nourished, and collecting clean water. The management are ripping off donations for admin and self fulfilment. Don't give to this rip off bunch of self fulfilling management.

Very offensive advertising need to stop or a leagle action will be taken

Water aid advert is insulting and deeply patronising. It is inaccurate. No parent will their child water that it is known can kill. We collect rain water, we boil and sieve contaminated water before usage. The advert portrays stupidity and as if no sense or care is taken into consideration and just drink water that can kill. Yes clean pipe water is needed by don’t use the advert for donations. It is grossly offensive.