Global Water Center is proud to partner with The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) on a number of exciting projects.
CAWST is a Canadian charity and licensed not-for-profit professional engineering consultancy tackling the global water crisis. CAWST teaches people how to bring safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into their homes, schools, and clinics using simple and affordable technologies.
The organization houses the world’s largest free and open-access online database of WASH resources and training materials and provides training and consulting support. Last year, users from 212 countries and regions of the world accessed CAWST’s resources and services. Since its inception in 2001, CAWST, together with its partners and network, has helped improve WASH for more than 50 million people globally.
CAWST is founded on the belief that the solution to ending the world’s water and sanitation crisis is not with any one organization, technology, or individual; it is many working together. With that in mind, CAWST partners with a growing network of organizations like Global Water Center (GWC). CAWST has supported GWC in designing and developing the Solar Powered Water Systems online courses and, most recently, in delivering a Drinking Water Quality Testing course in Ghana.
One exciting project CAWST is working on to build capacity in the rural water sector is a water quality management course. The purpose is to introduce risk-based decision-making approaches and water safety planning to support community-based organizations, technicians, and district-level government managers. In addition, CAWST is developing a set of sanitary inspection forms for household water treatment technologies, which will help identify risks to safe drinking water and priority actions for water quality improvement.
CAWST looks forward to continuing to work and collaborate with GWC to solve the world’s water crisis. To learn more about CAWST and its mission to make water knowledge common knowledge and goal of reaching 100 million people by 2030, please visit cawst.org.