The Plumbers’ Charity – News Update, 14 October 2025
The Plumbers Charity celebrates a new partnership between Aquabox and the Dolma Foundation to deliver clean water and disaster aid to Rasuwa and Langtang, Nepal. Signed at Painters’ Hall on 9 October 2025, the agreement ensures communities affected by floods, landslides, and earthquakes receive vital emergency support.
The Plumbers Charity exists to create better plumbing, better health and better lives, so we are thrilled that we have joined two of the Charites that we support, Aquabox and the Dolma Foundation who have now partnered together to supply aid to the regions of Rasuwa and the Langtang National Park in Nepal.
At a ceremony at Painters Hall, the new offices of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers in London on 9th October 2025, Charles Brooks, WCOP Master, Tim Gocher, Chairman Dolma Foundation (left) and Roger Cassidy, Chair of Trustees at Aquabox (right) signed the agreement that will see even more lives saved across Nepal.
Rasuwa and Langtang suffer frequent floods and landslides as a result of monsoon rains, and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) such as the recent Rasuwaghadi disaster and of course are prone to regular earthquakes.
For many years Aquabox has worked closely with the Nepalese Armed Police, Gurkhas, Gurkha Welfare Trust and the local Rotary club in Kathmandu where they have strategic stock in country ready for immediate despatch. The agreement with the Dolma Foundation means they can now cover the region to the north of Kathmandu just as rapidly.
Dolma will also be identifying schools or community centres in villages that do not have access to clean drinking water in the area where an Aquabox Community filter can be utilised to provide clean water for up to 400 people.
After a disaster people want for the most basic needs, shelter, food and most of all clean water. Without clean water, disease and dehydration can take hold potentially killing many more people, especially the most vulnerable, the young and the elderly.