Here is the unfortunate truth: 30% of rural water systems fail within 5 years.* Many of these systems fail due to lack of funding. Global Water Center’s new Carbon Credit Program, Carbon 4 Safe Water (C4SW), offers an innovative solution to this ongoing problem. C4SW...
Every written piece Global Water Center produces includes this one line: Collaboration,innovation, and education to keep rural water sources safe & flowing for good. Obviously,collaboration is the only way that our mission can be envisioned and achieved on a...
Congratulations to our Senior Directors, Lisa Mitchell and Benjamin Filskov, who will represent GWC on the Executive Committee of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). RWSN provides mentoring, training, and support to more than 15,000 members in over 160 countries....
Ghana’s Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has a big task in front of them: Provide safe water to all the rural communities and small towns across the country. That kind of impact can’t happen without teamwork. That is why CWSA is creating a “Safe Water...
The GWC team enjoyed the Water Technology Curriculum Launch Event in Ghana! Currently in Ghana, 19.7% of youth are unemployed and 8 million people lack access to safe water. That’s about to change. This program will empower young Ghanaians to become certified...
Our lives are stories of influence. Everyone influences someone. Sociologists report that even the most introverted individual will influence thousands of people during his or her lifetime. As I make this transition from COO to CEO* of Global Water Center (GWC), I’ve...