Expertise
Water Mission is committed to collaboration, ongoing learning and improvement, and technical quality so we can deliver lasting benefits for the people and communities we serve.
We have built a strong team of in-house engineers in the U.S. and in our eight country programs who specialize in standardized design, installation, and operations and maintenance (O&M) of large-scale safe water systems. This expertise ensures that we provide solutions that are durable, climate-resilient, efficient, and context-appropriate.
Global Recognition
- Water Mission has been recognized by leading institutions, including UNICEF, UNHCR, World Bank, and IOM.
- In 2020, Water Mission received the External Collaborator Award from the American Chemistry Council for developing innovative products or services that advance sustainability.
- Water Mission actively participates in WASH-sector uptime initiatives, seeking to provide reliable service through long-term monitoring efforts linked to performance-based funding.
- In IOM's 2017 report, Global Solar and Water Initiative Visit Report: Refugee Settlements in Northern Uganda, the organization recognized Water Mission as “the only NGO responding to the refugee emergency with the in-house technical capacity to design, implement, operate, and maintain solar-powered (hybrid) water systems.”
Capacity Statements
View our capacity statements to learn more about our technical expertise.
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
- Safe WASH Western Honduras Technical Report (Water Mission, 2025).
- Ensuring Equitable Access to Clean Water with Water Mission (EquityTool Case Study, 2018).
- Solar Pumping for Rural Water Supply: Life-Cycle Costs from Eight Countries (40th WEDC International Conference, 2017)
- Development-Oriented Relief and Recovery in the WASH Sector: A Survey of Current Practice (39th WEDC International Conference, 2016)
- Elements of Sustainable Solar Water Pumping System Design (Synthesis and presentations from 2015 WEDC Conference Workshop, 2015)
- Success Indicators and Barriers to Access: A Study of Community-Based Water Management in Uganda (38th WEDC International Conference, 2015)
- An Impact Study of Two Models of Community-Based Water Management in Uganda (Practicing Anthropology, 37:2, 2015)
- A Multi-Dimensional Measurement of the Health Impact of Community-Based Water Treatment Systems in Uganda (Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 5:1, 2015)
- Changes in Pediatric Diarrhoea and Infant Mortality Rates After a Large Scale WASH Program in Honduras (38th WEDC International Conference, 2015).
- Prevalence of Intestinal Protozoa in Communities along the Lake Victoria Region of Uganda (International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012).
- Health Impact of Community-Based Water Treatment Systems in Honduras (Journal of Anthropology, 2011).
- A Multidimensional Measure of Diarrheal Disease Load Changes Resulting from Access to Improved Water Sources in Honduras (Practicing Anthropology, 32:1, 2010).
