lack access to safely managed water
829,000K...people die from waterborne disease each year, mostly children under five
$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.
The Global Water Center's strategy is to catalyze Collective Impact. Together, we are stronger!
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why collective impact?
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Improving and sustaining the performance of a water system is transformative over time.
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The money invested is exponentially more efficient and has a long-lasting impact.
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Sustained transformation at scale demands collective action among many people, organizations and partners.
Highlights from the Field
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.
strategic partnerships
Companies of all sizes — from startups to Fortune 500s to the U.S. Air Force — use the Assetas platform to advance Operational Excellence, conduct digital inspections, and automate business workflows. Assetas helps companies to operate wisely.
strategic partnerships
CAWST provides professional services in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Founded in 2001, CAWST is a Canadian charity and licensed engineering firm. CAWST addresses the global need for safe drinking water and sanitation by building local knowledge and skills on household solutions people can implement themselves. CAWST's mission is to provide technical training and consulting, and act as a center of expertise in water and sanitation for the poor in developing countries.
strategic partnerships
charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. Since charity: water was founded in 2006, they've been chasing one ambitious goal: ending the global water crisis. Charity: water has funded over 111,000 water projects in 29 countries.
strategic partnerships
Cleanearth's passion is to assure quality in Water and the Environment. They do so by providing analytical instruments, water treatment systems and solutions for industrial customers. They love to take on our clients' most challenging analytical and process problems, using the best technology and methods in applied sciences, and solving them in ways unique to their needs.
strategic partnerships
CTVET: The Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET)'s primary responsibility is to regulate, promote, and administer technical and vocational education and training for transformation and innovation for sustainable development in Ghana.
strategic partnerships
Eagle Design & Technology is a Rapid Prototyping Service Bureau located in Western Michigan established in 1994. Their purpose is to assist industry in the design/build process from prototype to production. Since 1994, Eagle Design & Technology has established one of the highest world-wide reputations for quality in rapid prototyping.
strategic partnerships
Grundfos is more than just a water pump company. Through our solutions and services, Grundfos touches millions and millions of people every day, without most even noticing. And with that comes great responsibility. A responsibility to respect, protect and advance the flow of water for people, businesses and the planet. Grundfos believes that every drop contains infinite possibilities, and that water has the power to change the world.
strategic partnerships
International Aid Services are catalysts for development, investing in people in order for them to realize their full potential – going beyond relief and development. Their mission is to save lives, promote self-reliance and dignity through human transformation, going beyond relief and development.
strategic partnerships
LM International is a non-profit global faith-based foundation working to eradicate
poverty and to provide water, sanitation and hygiene, health, education and social
economic inclusion to the most vulnerable.
LM International's ultimate goal is for healthy and empowered people to create a
future for themselves in ways that do not compromise the planetary health and
lives of future generations.
strategic partnerships
Millennium Water Alliance is a global alliance of leading humanitarian, research, and business organizations. MWA's global and national hubs work with our members to scale and influence sustained water and sanitation services and resilience globally.
strategic partnerships
The Grundfos Foundation (Poul Due Jensen Foundation) is a Danish commercial foundation.
Grundfos’ founder, Poul Due Jensen, created the Foundation on 19 May 1975. With
88% of the shares, the Foundation is the majority shareholder in Grundfos.
In 2022, the Grundfos Foundation pledged 250m DKK to philanthropic purposes
within three strategic areas: Water, Research and Inclusion.
strategic partnerships
Royal Eijkelkamp is driven by a mission and vision that inspire us to do better each day. To leave the world in a better shape for future generations than we inherited it in, we continue to develop techniques, products and services to provide new and better alternatives. Royal Eijkelkamp has been devising, developing, producing and delivering solutions for soil and water related projects worldwide since 1911.
strategic partnerships
Ruden Water’s mission is to enable the access and use of conventional and unconventional
water resources, to ultimately improve climate resilience and food security. While
more and more countries are experiencing drought and water shortages, many have suitable
hydrogeological settings to hold large amounts of low salinity in deep aquifers.
Ruden Water has solutions for any customer from small farms to large countries and over
40 years of experience with water exploration. Its roots lie in humanitarian and development
water projects in Africa and other places in the world. We are recognized as a science and
technology driven company with a dose of idealism.
strategic partnerships
Rural Water Supply Network is a global network of rural water supply professionals and organizations committed to improving their knowledge, competence and professionalism, to fulfill RWSN's vision of sustainable rural water services for all. Both individuals and organizations participate in the network. RWSN is the largest global network of rural water supply professionals, with over 10,000 members in more than 150 countries.
strategic partnerships
The Safe Water Network believes water is a fundamental human right. Their mission is to reach millions in underserved communities by developing affordable, equitable solutions and accelerate access by providing technical assistance and catalyzing sector-wide collaboration.
strategic partnerships
Water for Good is a non-denominational, faith-based org dedicated to bringing Clean and lasting water to everyone in the Central African Republic. Water for Good's mission is tackling water poverty in one of the world's most forgotten countries. Their goal? Clean, lasting water for every man, woman, and child in the Central African Republic. Water for Good has two rules: 1) Work through local people 2) Build Sustainability
strategic partnerships
Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries and disaster areas. Water Mission and it's founders, George and Molly Greene, were the visionaries and founders of the Global Water Center.
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.
SPWS
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.
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.
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.
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
Newsletter
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Ways to Give
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.
For mail-in donations please clearly mark them for the Global Water Center and mail to address below.