Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli (english: Live with Water) is a charity founded in 2006 in the Hamburg quarter of St.

[1] Viva con Agua is a network of people and organizations committed to establish access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation for all humans worldwide.

In 2005 Benjamin Adrion, at the time a midfield player for the regional league football club FC St. Pauli, returned from a training camp in Havana.

He mobilised musicians, football fans and bohemians in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli and launched an appeal for donations.

[3] Among the earliest supporters of the project were prominent figures like the hip-hop musicians of Fettes Brot and Bela B of the punk rock band Die Ärzte.

He accepted the award conferred in recognition of special services rendered for the common good on behalf of every single Viva supporter.

[3] In 2010 the Viva con Agua Foundation was found to secure the idea and the ideals of the NGO in the long term.

[8] In 2019 Viva con Agua supported 16 WASH-Projects in ten countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, India; Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone.

[10] Several activities have been organized so far, including a march from Hamburg to the Swiss city of Basel (over 1050 km) in celebration of UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

German musicians like the rapper Marteria have written songs for Viva con Agua that can be listened to on YouTube.

This Kiel-based initiative has been working together with Viva con Agua since 2010 and provides mobile composting toilets for large-scale events.