2BPeople

lack access to safely managed water

People829K

...people die from waterborne disease each year, mostly children under five

Burning Money$37B

...is required annually to solve this problem through existing organizations and water technology

As many as
30%
of WATER
PROJECTS FAIL due to lack of effective training, monitoring and standards

The Problem

The global water crisis is both enormous and urgent. Many organizations worldwide are working hard to combat it, but it's too big to tackle alone. The problem persists, and people continue to die simply because not enough people are doing the right thing, the right way, together. The resources and technology exist to end the global water crisis, but to truly make an impact, we need to work together with a comprehensive strategy.

Our Strategy

The Global Water Center's strategy is to catalyze Collective Impact. Together, we are stronger!

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  • CollaborateWe collaborate with other organizations to accelerate the work through collective impact
  • StandardizeWe standardize construction, quality, and performance to maximize the sustainability of water projects across the globe
  • TrainWe train individuals, communities, and governments to empower them with local, professional WASH (WAter, Sanitation, and Hygenie) expertise
  • AnalyzeWe analyze monitoring data to provide organizations with the ability to act

The Solution

This crisis demands a collaborative, global response that engages and enables safe water organizations around the world, scaling their impact and rapidly increasing the number of sustainable, safe water providers.

The Global Water Center is bringing other organizations together to do what no one organization can do on its own. The Global Water Center can be relied upon to incentivize, mobilize and aggregate the work of capable and effective water providers who consistently deliver safe and reliable water in communities facing extraordinary water poverty.

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Collaborate

We do not have enough organizations working together today to solve the global water crisis. The Global Water Center brings together the WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector in a coordinated effort that achieves synergistic scale that is not possible under the current circumstances that find little collaboration. The Global Water Center is impacting the world by convening safe water organizations, corporate partners, governmental agencies, and millions of people to work together to end the global water crisis.

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Standardize

Water projects each year experience a high failure rate, wasting billions of dollars – primarily because they are not being implemented in accordance with construction and performance standards. Global Water Center works across our partners to design and implement projects that meet universally agreed upon standards and thereby optimize the probability of project sustainability.

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Train

There is no clear path for professionalization in the WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector, so many communities are aid dependent, lacking the skills and expertise needed to install, maintain and repair their own projects. This program gives collaborating communities and organizations the training, expertise, support and capacity to implement and maintain projects that comply with accepted standards, bringing an end to aid dependency.

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Analyze

Completed water projects are not being monitored to ensure that they are providing safe water on a reliable and sustainable basis.  This program gives the collaborating organizations the performance data they need to ensure that the project's standards and objectives are met, so they can take corrective action or provide accurate information from their field projects.

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The Question

Why collective impact?

  • Improving and sustaining the performance of a water system is transformative over time.

  • The money invested is exponentially more efficient and has a long-lasting impact.

  • Sustained transformation at scale demands collective action among many people, organizations and partners.

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Highlights from the Field

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Our Work

The resources and technology exist to end the global water crisis, but to truly make an impact, we need to work together with a comprehensive strategy. This crisis demands a collaborative, global response that engages and enables safe water organizations around the world.

COLLABORATORS

The Global Water Center can be relied upon to incentivize, mobilize and aggregate the work of capable and effective water providers who consistently deliver safe and reliable water in communities facing extraordinary water poverty.

Learning Services

We provide world class training and curriculum development across critical skills needed for the professionalization of the water sector. The 2021 UN Water Summary Progress update, states that a lack of technical capacity and human resources is slowing progress on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Learning service seeks to fill this gap, through a holistic approach to capacity development.

We collaborate with leading WASH organizations to design, develop, deliver, and evaluate world class training for the professionalization of the WASH sector. We also partner with technical institutions to design certificate programs that provide clear professional development pathways for individuals seeking to enter or build their skills in WASH. Our capacity development initiatives include not only training, but ongoing mentoring, and technical support. Through this work we increase the capacity of WASH organizations to provide a sustained supply of safe water to the most vulnerable.

For more information about any of our learning services, email info@globalwatercenter.org.

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Our solar powered water systems overview and design course is a virtual learning experience for rural water professionals and partners to analyze rural water services, evaluate the opportunities and risks and promote solar-powered water systems (SPWS) to improve water sustainability and equity supply programs.

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TVET

The Global Water Center is addressing the need for safe water and youth employment through the Water Curriculum Initiative for Technical Vocational Training. In Ghana, 26% of the population (over 8 million people), lack access to safe water. The project builds the capacity of local youth to enter the workforce in the water ecosystem and fill the skill gap necessary to provide safe water to the rural population in Ghana. The impact: gainful employment for youth and safe water for millions.

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Water Quality Engineering

There is no clear path for professionalization in the WASH sector, so many communities are aid dependent, lacking the skills and expertise needed to install, maintain and repair their own projects.

The Global Water Center is inventing, delivering, and developing capacity for local communities to provide a needed pathway to create, develop and build safe and reliable water systems.

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Technical Services

We believe poor and unreliable information and low levels of professionalism, particularly in the rural water sub-sector, account for many of the failure points along the safe water service delivery process.

Solutions Needed:

  • Evaluation and Strategic Design
  • Construction
  • Operation and Maintenance
  • Monitoring, Analysis, Resolution
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The Global Water Center has a big vision to turn the number of people lacking access to safe water from 2 billion to 0, but we can't do this alone.

Your donation will help fund our supporting training and equipping services that build consensus on standards and provide global monitoring for safe water projects around the world.

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